Example sentences of "i expected [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort .
2 I expected telling questions about Shaun leaving , although in a way , without sounding insulting to Shaun , he was one of the more faceless members of the band .
3 I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village .
4 I expected to find interdependence , but no uniformity , in the Greek approach to the various nations and in the response of these nations ( when recognizable from our evidence ) to the Greek approach .
5 Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was .
6 I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there .
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