Example sentences of "i expected [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ .
2 I expected four .
3 ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped .
4 I expected blue murder but , to my delight , he was very proud . ’
5 He said : ‘ I expected six or seven calibre applicants , though others in the business said I would be surprised by the numbers to apply .
6 At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton !
7 I expected that .
8 I expected that .
9 I expected ecological debate , the odd clash over vegetarianism and a hint of hippiness .
10 I expected hundred and forty at least !
11 I expected new information .
12 And Bell said : ‘ I expected some trouble but not on this scale — they acted like animals .
13 I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before .
14 Not that I expected any .
15 At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet .
16 I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this .
17 I expected more of you but perhaps you deserve a second chance . ’
18 I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm .
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