Example sentences of "i expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 2 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 3 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 4 | ‘ I expected it to be hard because , when we tested here last February , I did a full race distance and it was hard work , very painful . ’ |
| 5 | As I made clear to my officers at that briefing , I expected — and received — the very highest standards of policing , sensitivity and courtesy . |
| 6 | I expected better from someone half my age . |
| 7 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 8 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 9 | I expected him to rise . |
| 10 | I expected it to be light , cos I thought it was morning on account of all the people all hurrying about . |
| 11 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 12 | I expected ecological debate , the odd clash over vegetarianism and a hint of hippiness . |
| 13 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 14 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's exactly the kind of demand I expected . |
| 16 | As I expected , there was no evidence of an alternative culture , and there were no obvious homosexuals , though I received a few long looks from passers-by which I was careful not to return . |
| 17 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |
| 18 | They had been defiled , and I expected punishment . |
| 19 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 20 | With these memories , I expected Galway City , my destination , to be a hopeless , broken-down kind of place . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to Hollywood on a promotional tour in the summer of ‘ 88 and it was n't quite what I expected . |
| 22 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 23 | ‘ I expected it , sir , ’ she said , ‘ with Mrs Browning 's health as it is . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And I was saying , ’ Rozanov growled , ‘ I expected it will be truly international . ’ |
| 25 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 26 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 27 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |
| 28 | He was rather braver than I expected and jumped the fences very well . |
| 29 | It is less imposing and less impressive than I expected and is bordered by similarly styled ‘ cabins ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's much more hilly that I expected , much more severe , more than anyone said to me , ’ said Montgomerie . |