Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv] expect [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 3 | Over some excellent claret at the judge 's lodgings in St Albans , he said , ‘ What I remember most about the trial — and I had n't expected it — was the character of Eck . |
| 4 | I am not fond of these paradoxes , if paradoxes they are ; and I do n't expect everybody — or indeed anybody — to see it my way . |
| 5 | I do n't expect politicians from Britain and France to understand , and I do n't expect their politics to bring peace here . ’ |
| 6 | And I do n't expect him to lie down and die under these current aspects . |
| 7 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 8 | But his family is extremely rich and I do n't expect he knows any shepherds . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm forty-two and I do n't expect I ever will be myself now . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , yes , I know it has , and I do n't expect you to spare me , Maria , ’ Luke conceded sardonically . |
| 11 | He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I did n't expect him to . |
| 12 | She said , and I did n't expect you to say that . |