Example sentences of "[adv] expected [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 2 | Fergus looked up , because for all Dierdriu 's hubris , he had not expected her to be so suddenly direct . |
| 3 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 4 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 5 | He had not expected it to be so beautiful . |
| 6 | The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms . |
| 7 | The point being that even Bleasdale who knew Palin well had n't expected him to be quite so nice . |
| 8 | She had n't expected him to be simply standing there , watching her , and her breath caught in a small gasp as she almost collided with him . |
| 9 | Empty , of course , but then he had n't expected it to be that easy . |
| 10 | But then she had n't expected it to be any different . |
| 11 | I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 12 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |