Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] expect " in BNC.
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1 | That was not the reply she had expected . |
2 | The news he had just imparted had had the effect he had expected . |
3 | The ordeal she had expected had turned into fun . |
4 | ( In last week 's Unigram issue we said to expect price reductions of around 40% . |
5 | At the Economic Planning Council he had expected to see Clem Bunker , but he was absent , holding his own meeting with the vehicle plant conveners in an attempt to determine the truth about the sacking incident and to resolve the dispute . |
6 | On his way home to Brest , sailing north-about round Ireland , Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing , with a new sail and money in their pockets , some Irish fishermen he had captured , but his arrival back in port , on 8 May 1778 , proved a disappointment , for the French failed to give him the hero 's welcome he had expected . |
7 | She had turned her head aside and flung her hands over her face ; she did not make the outcry he had expected . |
8 | After all , he had not been the ogre she had expected him to be . |
9 | Here in Jake 's splendid and tastefully furnished home was the very last place she had expected to be tonight . |
10 | Although , she thought , as she glanced at him , in truth she 'd expected something other than this staid automobile . |
11 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
12 | Some time passed before Anwar noticed that his much-anticipated son-in-law was n't the rippling physical specimen he 'd expected . |
13 | She tapped , and walked in to find not the sitting-room she 'd expected , but a light , modern office . |
14 | To my surprise , the queue I had expected to stretch to Weston-super-Mare was far more modest . |
15 | But when he spoke the anger she had expected was under tight control . |
16 | Little did he know that the ‘ pottery ’ he had chosen as a leaving gift , was n't going to be the china dog he had expected . |
17 | Shabbiness she had expected , but not dirt and this air of something disreputable lurking though unseen . |
18 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
19 | But Mr Evans did n't fly into the rage she 'd expected . |
20 | Lyell resigned not because of some inherent conflict between science and religion , but because he enjoyed neither the prestige nor the remuneration he had expected from the post . |
21 | It was not a decision he had expected Massingham to welcome , and nor had he . |
22 | For some reason I had expected a foreign accent ; but I could place this exactly . |
23 | The last thing I had expected from Karen was an imaginative feel for language , but this was almost poetic : the soap foam as fur on the skin of the water . |
24 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
25 | Somehow that was the last thing she 'd expected to hear . |
26 | That was the last thing she had expected . |
27 | ‘ But it 's lovely , ’ said Emily , with surprise , as if it was the last thing she had expected . |
28 | Affability was the last thing she had expected from Georgina this morning . |
29 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
30 | It was n't so much what he had done , though it was the very last thing she had expected , it was the way it had felt , like a high-voltage jolt of electricity . |