Example sentences of "[adv] expected [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 2 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 3 | It fully expected a massive expansion . |
| 4 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 5 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 6 | So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him . |
| 7 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
| 8 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |