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 .
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