Example sentences of "she expect [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
| 2 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 3 | He had taken it , now , that she was not going ; she expected to see resentment blossom , but he did not resent it . |
| 4 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 5 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 6 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 7 | " I asked her if she expected to see him when he got back , and she said , " To be perfectly frank , I do n't know . |
| 8 | looking about as though for somebody she expected to see . |
| 9 | When the dark blue sidecar , a red coat-of-arms on its tailboard and a grey horse between its shafts , came swirling towards her , iron-tyred wheels crunching merrily along , with the noble sound of a horse 's well-shod feet , the very last person she expected to see was Anderson . |
| 10 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |
| 11 | Looking down she expected to see blood , awfulness , something dead . |
| 12 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 13 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 14 | She did n't know what she expected to see — a car screeching to a halt on the edge of the runway , or something equally dramatic . |
| 15 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 16 | From New Year 's Day onwards , the whole of 1849 , the last year she expected to spend in England , was to Ruth simply a period of temporising ; of waiting , though seldom patiently , for the only event which had come to mean anything . |
| 17 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 18 | Imagine , she expected to live with us ! ’ |
| 19 | She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’ |
| 20 | Even Prince Charles , whom she expected to make inquiries , did not . |
| 21 | She expected to feel utterly changed . |
| 22 | Any minute she expected to feel his hand on her breast . |
| 23 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 24 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 25 | At any moment she expected to hear his voice behind her , calling her back . |
| 26 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 27 | She expected to hear no more . |
| 28 | She expected to find Lori 's head swimming into focus , close to her own , like a pale balloon and looked away in order to avoid that confrontation . |
| 29 | She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy . |
| 30 | There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her . |