Example sentences of "[vb past] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anger , yes , she 'd expected that . |
| 2 | It said he 'd expected this . |
| 3 | I 'd expected some token reluctance , a bit of chair-shuffling and so on . |
| 4 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 5 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 6 | Marcus seemed to expect this , though usually he had little to say to Ludens . |
| 7 | He seemed to expect this , and merely abused the audience back , spitting at them , skidding over on to his arse once , and drinking and slouching around the stage as if he were in his living room . |
| 8 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 9 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 10 | The plaintiff 's case is that despite the difficulty with the landlord 's consent at the time the contracts were signed , it was made clear to them by Mr at this stage that that ought to be a formality and no one anticipated to expect this . |
| 11 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |
| 12 | ’ That neither did she , but she did expect common civility . ’ |
| 13 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 14 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 15 | Terrified , of course she was terrified ; Michael Pope had expected that . |
| 16 | She had expected that . |
| 17 | Bill had expected that question , but he could not prevent there coming across his inward eye the memory of the grubby calendar in Onyx 's kitchen , with the new red ring round Thursday the twenty-ninth . |
| 18 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 19 | At best she had expected bland sympathy from him , but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine . |
| 20 | She had expected raucous laughter , giggling , cries of disappointment — anything but the total silence that struck her eardrums with the cold effectiveness of a block of ice applied to her nervous system . |
| 21 | When Daak had been brought to join them , Bernice had expected Ace to run to him ; instead , she just smiled crookedly and raised a hand in greeting . |
| 22 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 23 | Mrs Lamb said she had expected tougher action . |
| 24 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 25 | He had expected some final pay-off , a terminal settling of accounts for services rendered . |
| 26 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 27 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 28 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 29 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 30 | Roland had supposed she had expected this , but it became dreadfully obvious that she had not . |