Example sentences of "[pron] had expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them .
3 Affability was the last thing she had expected from Georgina this morning .
4 It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find .
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 .
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