Example sentences of "[pers pn] expected [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
2 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
3 | I expected a hanging , at least . ’ |
4 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
5 | I expected a slap but Mrs Bullivant just stepped over us saying she 'd be back later , after she 'd attended Mrs Groves who was having her first . |
6 | I expected a reply somewhat like that . |
7 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
8 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
9 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
10 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
11 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
12 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
13 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |
14 | I expected the Polynesians there to be just as subject to the ailments of the flesh as anywhere else in the world — especially polio — otherwise what would they need a doctor for ? |
15 | I do n't think she expected a present |
16 | This Christmas she expected a baby . |
17 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
18 | As is common practice , Landlords kept the tenant 's deposit of £650 and told Debbie they would take their entire fee of £881 up front , so she expected no rent for the first month . |
19 | ‘ Where does your kindness come from ? ’ she asked , and said it almost as if she expected no answer . |
20 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
21 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
22 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
23 | She expected the receiver to be replaced . |
24 | Her prophetic framework was based largely on the writings of Thomas Brightman [ q.v. ] and John Archer ; she expected the conversion and restoration of the Jews in 1656 , and the full establishment of Christ 's kingdom by 1701 . |
25 | She was a nice girl and she expected the ring . |
26 | As she expected the children had vanished perhaps into the trees . |
27 | On the plane to London , Adam had said that Clare still refused to see her ; he had hinted that she expected an apology . |
28 | Somewhat surprised approval from Mona , and she expected an explanation . |
29 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
30 | X marked the spot where you expected a draw to take place . |