Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] expect [prep] [noun prp] " 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 | Affability was the last thing she had expected from Georgina this morning . |
| 4 | Adam Carver had spent longer than he 'd expected with Uno . |
| 5 | Of all the people he had expected from Washington ‘ Dexter ’ was the last person . |
| 6 | Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco . |