Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 2 | The last thing I had expected from Karen was an imaginative feel for language , but this was almost poetic : the soap foam as fur on the skin of the water . |
| 3 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
| 4 | Affability was the last thing she had expected from Georgina this morning . |
| 5 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 6 | Adam Carver had spent longer than he 'd expected with Uno . |
| 7 | Of all the people he had expected from Washington ‘ Dexter ’ was the last person . |
| 8 | Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco . |