Example sentences of "[vb past] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 4 | At best she had expected bland sympathy from him , but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine . |
| 5 | 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 . |