Example sentences of "i expected [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 2 | With these memories , I expected Galway City , my destination , to be a hopeless , broken-down kind of place . |
| 3 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 4 | ‘ When I told Chris I was pregnant , I expected panic certainly , but not the hatred that came pouring from him . |
| 5 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 6 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 7 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 8 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 9 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 10 | Qh5 where I expected White 's threats to grant him at least adequate compensation for the two sacrificed pieces , an assessment borne out by post-mortem analysis . |
| 11 | In the first investigative session I ever ran I expected pupils to produce a quadratic relationship , or at least a verbal description of one , from a problem involving lines and their intersections . |
| 12 | They had been defiled , and I expected punishment . |