Example sentences of "what [pron] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to Hollywood on a promotional tour in the summer of ‘ 88 and it was n't quite what I expected . |
| 3 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 4 | In joining London Gay Switchboard , I 'm not sure quite what I expected . |
| 5 | I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected . |
| 6 | Occasionally a space divided two buildings and then I caught a glimpse of attap huts , children playing , chickens scratching in the dust , pigs rooting , the vivid red of a flame tree , coconut and breadfruit trees , more what I expected than the pink-washed ‘ retirement bungalow ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ St Maarten was too crowded , and was n't what I expected . |
| 8 | " I do n't know what I expected , " said Hazel . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not what I expected , ’ he said as she came alongside him . |
| 10 | Besides looking expensively elegant , which is what I expected a mantenuta to be , this woman was also very beautiful . |
| 11 | I rushed with him into the buildings and found what I expected and dreaded ; a small calf kicking at its stomach , getting up and down , occasionally rolling on its straw bed . |
| 12 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 13 | Ryan laughed in my face , which is what I expected . |
| 14 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
| 15 | ‘ This is only what I expected . ’ |
| 16 | It is n't what I expected to find . |
| 17 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 18 | ‘ What I expected , ’ she snapped , ‘ was that Italians might show some reverence for the past . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what I expected you to say . |
| 20 | ‘ It was not what I expected , but I have not yet had a real chance to find out what went wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're not what I expected . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ To be honest , you 're not what I expected , either . ’ |
| 23 | say no , it 's not what I expected . |
| 24 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 25 | That was what she expected of him . |
| 26 | That was what she expected . |
| 27 | The realities of parenthood for her were , as for most people , different from what she expected . |
| 28 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 29 | Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected . |
| 30 | He was n't sure what she expected him to do . |