Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] expect [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't expect him to come . ’ |
| 2 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 3 | I did n't expect you to come so soon . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh — I did n't expect you to come round again . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't expected you to come back here tonight . |
| 6 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 7 | ‘ But you did n't expect me to come . ’ |
| 8 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 9 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |