Example sentences of "expected some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour .
2 I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect .
3 Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them .
4 Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ .
5 They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received .
6 Some people were shocked although it was expected some people are devastated .
7 The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn .
8 An official bulletin was expected some time after the consultation .
9 Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one !
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