Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] expect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expected to be met by Famlio gunships because they 're always there . |
| 2 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 3 | My hotel room was everything I knew to expect from previous sojourns in socialist Europe . |
| 4 | Formation flying on the photographic Aztec was easier than I had expected considering the airframe 's sleekness and the early jet engines ' reputation for poor acceleration . |
| 5 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 6 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 7 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 8 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |
| 9 | Life with Lisabeth in the flat , which I had expected to be anything but a rich pageant , turned out to be not half bad . |
| 10 | I was desperate to prevent the angry outburst that I had expected in the restaurant happening here , in this even more public place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You got to expect to be |
| 13 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 14 | Ruth wondered what she 'd expected to be told . |
| 15 | Not that she 'd expected to . |
| 16 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 17 | She had expected to be one of the others . |
| 18 | She had expected to be the centre of things in Gallanach , but the McHoans as a family had so many other things happening to them ; she had felt peripheral . |
| 19 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 20 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 21 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 22 | She also said she was sorry that she might be away a little longer than she had expected to be . |
| 23 | She was not as disconcerted as she had expected to be . |
| 24 | Here in Jake 's splendid and tastefully furnished home was the very last place she had expected to be tonight . |
| 25 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 26 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
| 27 | Affability was the last thing she had expected from Georgina this morning . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 30 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |