Example sentences of "i 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 ? |