Example sentences of "[vb past] expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly the joyful mood in which Folly had expected to take possession of her new domain , but it seemed to work well enough . |
| 2 | It took longer than he had expected to persuade Floy to agree . |
| 3 | When Major visited Washington in December , he had expected to see Clinton . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had expected to see Mr Crangle lurking about but to his relief saw instead that it was Mcduff . |
| 6 | She had expected to see Fosdyke the day before when she went shopping . |
| 7 | She had expected to get satisfaction from refusing Faith 's jewellery , because it seemed an action on principle , and because there was always a surreptitious pleasure to be gained from snubbing Isabel . |
| 8 | Ollokot had expected to meet Howard and receive his permission to settle on the Umatilla Agency rather than Lapwai . |
| 9 | He had expected to sweep Rachel off her feet and carry her off to New Zealand with him on the next sailing , but he had reckoned without her Jewish father and mother , the new Zionism and Rachel herself . |