Example sentences of "expected they to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither she nor Nick were particularly tidy ; at home , in their warm , muddly house , no one had expected them to be . |
| 2 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 3 | If you 'd put those clothes there would you have expected them to be found sooner or later ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 5 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 6 | She had expected them to be hard and hurtful , cruelly punishing . |