Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |
| 2 | I was not expecting a personal visit . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I was n't expecting a miraculous transformation , you see , I was expecting the Belinda I 've come to know and love . ’ |
| 5 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 6 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |