Example sentences of "last [noun] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torquay was the last place I expected something like this to happen . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 3 | Virginia Bottomley is a very nice woman : soft-spoken and yet forceful , articulate and obviously clever , and the last person I expected to talk to about my job . |
| 4 | The last person I expected to come across was you . ’ |
| 5 | When the dark blue sidecar , a red coat-of-arms on its tailboard and a grey horse between its shafts , came swirling towards her , iron-tyred wheels crunching merrily along , with the noble sound of a horse 's well-shod feet , the very last person she expected to see was Anderson . |
| 6 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 7 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 8 | There will be two hinged clamps to secure it in even the worst weather which , as you can see for yourself , is the last thing we expect today . ’ |
| 9 | The disbelief round the table was sudden ; it was the last thing they expected to hear . |
| 10 | Here the last thing you expect to see is one of the most exquisite small houses in the land ; yet here , glimpsed down a short straight avenue of completely inappropriate young cherry trees , is Lodge Park . |
| 11 | With the recession in this country , it 's the last thing I expected . |
| 12 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 13 | " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . " |
| 14 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 15 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 16 | The last thing he expected was an attack from above . |
| 17 | Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue . |
| 18 | From New Year 's Day onwards , the whole of 1849 , the last year she expected to spend in England , was to Ruth simply a period of temporising ; of waiting , though seldom patiently , for the only event which had come to mean anything . |