Example sentences of "expected [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 2 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 3 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 4 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 5 | ‘ And you expected no such visitors to the priory ? ’ |
| 6 | Those who expected a predictable finale to this unpredictable match got far more than they anticipated . |
| 7 | 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 . |