Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had expected no other reply . |
| 2 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 3 | For some reason I had expected a foreign accent ; but I could place this exactly . |
| 4 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 5 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 6 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 7 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 8 | She had expected a deep blue Mediterranean sky . |
| 9 | She had expected no other outcome , even if he had . |
| 10 | She was surprised to find how calm and reasonable she sounded , for although she had expected no different , to hear Harry speaking so ardently of his love for another girl felt as if an icy hand were clutching her heart . |
| 11 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 12 | She had expected an immediate ‘ no ’ , and felt a moment 's panic when Luke failed at first to respond . |
| 13 | This later recommendation surprised many who had expected a liberal/academic working party of ‘ the great and the good ’ to turn their backs on the idea of retaining a paternalistic and arguably outmoded system of adult censorship . |
| 14 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 15 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 16 | Harold Hobson , the chairman of the Central Electricity Board ( who had expected the top job in the new organisation himself ) , pointedly refused to work as Citrine 's deputy and resigned from the CEB prematurely . |
| 17 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |
| 18 | They had expected the Prime Minister to appoint a third woman to his Cabinet . |
| 19 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 20 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 22 | Wilcox grunted contemptuously , as if he had expected no better . |
| 23 | Hardly anyone had expected the Japanese to surrender quite so quickly and , when they did and for the moment , as far as the Allies were concerned , hardly anything happened . |