Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expected some token reluctance , a bit of chair-shuffling and so on . |
| 2 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 3 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 4 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 5 | Anger , yes , she 'd expected that . |
| 6 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 7 | She had expected raucous laughter , giggling , cries of disappointment — anything but the total silence that struck her eardrums with the cold effectiveness of a block of ice applied to her nervous system . |
| 8 | She had expected that . |
| 9 | At best she had expected bland sympathy from him , but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine . |
| 10 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 11 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 12 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |
| 13 | Roland had supposed she had expected this , but it became dreadfully obvious that she had not . |
| 14 | Mrs Lamb said she had expected tougher action . |
| 15 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 16 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 17 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 18 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 19 | It said he 'd expected this . |
| 20 | He seemed to expect this , and merely abused the audience back , spitting at them , skidding over on to his arse once , and drinking and slouching around the stage as if he were in his living room . |
| 21 | He had expected some final pay-off , a terminal settling of accounts for services rendered . |
| 22 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 23 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 24 | While chairman David Gare said the group performed well throughout the year , he had expected this year 's figures to be better than last . |
| 25 | The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity . |
| 26 | Neither of them had expected this . |