Synonym: anticipate, await, hope, look for, suppose, think. Antonym: despair. Similar words: expected, unexpected, expert, expense, expertise, experiment, experience, experienced. Meaning: [ɪk’spekt] v. 1. regard something as probable or likely 2. consider obligatory; request and expect 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. consider reasonable or due 5. be pregnant with 6. look forward to the birth of a child.
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1. Bear with evil and expect good.
2. We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
3. What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
4. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
5. If you are successful, you can expect promotion.
6. You can’t expect him to be perfect.nobody is.
7. I expect he’ll pass the examination.
8. She knows broadly what to expect.
9. Employees expect flexibility in the workplace.
10. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
11. Despair doubled expect change twice.
12. Don’t expect sympathy from me!
13. They expect a Cabinet reshuffle in the summer.
14. It would be unwise to expect too much.
15. How silly of me to expect them to help!
16. When do you expect him back?
17. Oh very funny! You expect me to believe that?
18. I had no preconceptions about what to expect.
19. I always expect total honesty from my employees.
20. Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.
21. I expect to be back within a week.
22. I don’t expect anything in reward.
23. Political analysts expect the Conservatives to win.
24. Don’t expect it to improve overnight.
25. We can expect changes in the political landscape.
26. Expect variable cloudiness and fog tomorrow.
27. I had been warned what to expect.
28. He will expect some reward after working so hard.
29. When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak(Sentencedict), then you may expect a soak.
30. He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.
More similar words: expected, unexpected, expert, expense, expertise, experiment, experience, experienced, expedition, experimental, at the expense of, aspect, suspect, spectrum, prospect, inspector, spectacle, perspective, inspection, introspect, spectacular, respectively, with respect to, introspection, irrespective of, expand, export, expose, explore, explain.
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expect (v): to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive
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Definition of Expect
to guess or suppose
Examples of Expect in a sentence
When everything was going wrong with the flight, we were told to expect the worst with a crash landing.
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“I expect an answer from you,” the teacher told her student, “since I called on you.”
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When the clouds turned dark and the wind began to blow, we would expect it to rain and storm.
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Since the restaurant was located in an exclusive area of town, the patrons would expect to pay a large price for their meal.
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After winning every game in the season, all of the players expect for this team to win the tournament.
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Moreover, what God expect
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An optimistic outlook enables you to expect that good things will happen in your life
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You need to be able to expect yourself to do what you said you would do when you said you would do it
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need to expect yourself to live with integrity
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You also need to expect yourself to be committed
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From yourself, expect 100% commitment and
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but still He expect us to meet the standard of uprightness
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Keep family members and other visitors up to date on the patient’s condition so they know what to expect in terms of interaction
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Ava had spoken with Kulai about Herndon and quite a few others, it would not be a total surprise, he would expect no less
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Focus on the advantages of age and expect to be as healthy as you can be
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failed by our ways of doing things, and still expect the
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We don’t know what to expect down there,” Johnny said as he held out his hand protectively while peering into the darkness of the descending stairs
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Even so, he would fight back until he died, and she would probably expect no less
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For example, if you mention your child as the owner of your home but you expect your spouse to reside there till his/her death, then a mention must be made in the will to this effect
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He left here about twenty minutes ago so I expect he will be there soon
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‘It is going to screw me up financially … I expect Stephen has told you that I lost my job
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‘Liz?’ said a voice I didn’t expect to hear
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but what else could the man expect
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«It’s not decided yet, but don’t expect more than €350 a month at the very most
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‘Stephen’s got a pretty foul temper himself … I expect it was six of one and half a dozen of the other if the truth were told
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her temper is rarely long lived, in fact, I expect she was regretting it before he was halfway home
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But still Stephen doesn’t call … after two days, I hardly expect him to though a tiny flame of hope persists in driving me crackers
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foremost knowledge, but he must expect that the highest power will
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‘As I expect Stephen said
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it today? We should always expect it, in spite of the things we see, putting
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I expect he’ll let it again quite easily
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expect the tumour to resolve by itself just because you are Christian
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Do not expect that your child will grow up and turn away from this
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I suppose he is naturally careful what he says – comes of being a lawyer, I expect – the agency did mention that the company has a high turnover of staff though which is worrying
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‘She’ll be frantic, I expect
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Who else is there? Oh yes, I expect you’ll meet Harvey Wadsworth … he’s a nuisance, fancies himself a bit
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‘I expect they hit traffic on the motorway
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I don’t know what speed limits Jeremy broke between his place and here, but he and Tonya are at the door before I expect them
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Man in love —> (shouting) Kill me a time, you expect!
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I expect her to be enthusiastic about it, yet I am nonplussed at her immediate frigidity: “I have nothing to do this afternoon, but I am not in the mood of going to such a lecture, I had better stay home alone,” she announces in a low voice and leaves me wondering, since she has always given me the impression of being very interested in such matters
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«Well, we still have to instruct them on what to do, what to expect
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“Anyway, what is a would-be doctor good for? You should wait for him to finish his studies, and that could take ages! Like an old friend of mine, who had an affair with a medicine student, she waited for him to take his diploma, she even helped him financially to open his surgery, and in the end he dumped her! So, what did you expect? It’s a fortunate thing that he hasn’t called!” she concludes with a shrieking voice and her usual air of importance
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‘I expect he told you he cares about you, didn’t he?’
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After all, you expect us to take the affection and support you offer us, allow us to return the favour
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He didn’t expect something like that to come from such an exquisite creature, «What kind of name is that?» She notices his confusion and returns it with a puzzled look of her own, like the answer should be obvious
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I knew what to expect
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«They won’t expect much from me after this,» Glenelle said, «I set up that big old cherub I had with my butterfly flipper personification and worked up all the nuances I could think of into it
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They hadn’t moved until she did … that much was clear … So she’d stepped off the bus, stood for a moment to get her bearings and then set off down the road … there’d been no pedestrian pathway, but she didn’t expect one
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I shouldn’t expect much out of life, because, after all, I’m a
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She tossed the dry wrap down to Luray who was now glad to put it on, the temperature was getting to closer to what one would expect on a Nightday in mid winter
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Do I truly expect them to believe that God is good when there is so much suffering in the world? The answer is yes
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You cannot expect everything
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This is your culture and I can’t expect to take you out of it and I will try very hard not to complain about it
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As she neared the corner, she went wide, eyes scanning ahead and spotted the men, standing together to one side of the walkway … ostensibly talking animatedly … no, one of them’s glanced to see if I’m coming … They paid her no attention as she neared them – she didn’t expect them to
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They expect Alan to walk up there, like a willing morsel to a metal monster
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‘I have sent out messages to the appropriate quarters … I expect to hear news from the Burfords shortly
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It is actually sinful for us to continue to expect that God will bless us
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what to expect but still held on tightly
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‘Fox or a rabbit, I expect
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Isn’t this the time that we would expect Jesus to shoot down that kind of Jewish nationalistic pride? Jesus’ answer actually doesn’t imply this
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Cosmicblasto didn’t expect this, but knew that in order to keep
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By the time I get back from the Med, I expect I shall have got over it and I would hate for our future relations to be damaged by my current mood
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We expect more of them,
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“I expect we will be in the Courtroom in the Chambers”
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‘And that really scares you, I expect
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Before the process will begin, the surgeon explains to the patient what he can expect from
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In a chapter devoted to complaints of the respiratory tract one would expect that most of the exercises would be breathing ones and so they are
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‘I suppose it would come down to whichever of us is the more expert in whatever we are talking about … but, if we still can’t agree, I expect I shall have to say that you hold sway
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Before it got extremely late she gathered the courage to tell Yarin not to expect her
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I didn’t expect to find Deris there
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She began to feel the electrical charge that Sally had told her to expect
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You don’t expect rowdies in paradise
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Where I would expect to see flourishing flocks of sheep, there are a few goats, scavenging amongst the scrub
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We ride along parallel with the riverside for some miles and although I do see some water birds and a few splashes which suggest the presence of fish, there is no sign of the rampant life I expect from a waterway like this
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I don’t expect her to be your responsibility»
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They’ll have the repair of all the tracks round here in their contract, I expect
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‘But that is cruel – to expect you to put your life on hold like that
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The old man returned with something I didn’t expect — a side plate with pieces of fish in batter, one of those dolmades vine-leaf parcels, some local bread, a few olives and a glass of something that didn’t look like water to me
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“Oh I fully expect to be zeroed out
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‘I expect so … if I write really small
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‘I didn’t expect to see that stone – a most unusual cut
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«I would hardly expect that of an enemy agent
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Did she really expect him to just let it go at that? Who did she have lunch with? What was she doing here if it wasn’t using the cherubs? She was either lying about the cherubs or meeting someone
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It’s a man thing, I expect
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“You have won the hearts of my warriors,” shouted Lord Tarak loudly, “nothing less than I would expect from one such as yourself
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‘Oh, I don’t expect you to believe me when I say I don’t understand
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Oh well, you’ve managed to keep her a child this long, couldn’t expect it to last much longer
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‘Of course, Katie, I expect it will depend on what Jo and Alastair have planned
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‘I didn’t expect this from you
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The man looked surprised, as though he did not expect this reaction
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‘I expect that will be Jane – she’s Simon’s sister in law, Rob
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No matter what happens, I choose to expect the very best!”
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Just because it spews the numbers we expect doesn’t mean it’s measuring what we think it is
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‘There wasn’t any news on Friday but I expect to hear something this week
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‘I don’t think I’ll be able to ring you from Italy, Anna, but I’m taking my laptop and should be able e-mail you … I expect the hotel will have internet points … at least I hope it will
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Billy knows that he can never expect
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«How do you expect an old man like me to remember that with you in my arms?»
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«I expect you to surrender because of the logic of the argument, not the pleasure that goes along with it
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if you can feel it and expect that it will be, it will be
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‘I hope they won’t expect us to join
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Tarak had made clear to her what they could expect; the biting cold, heavy snow drifts, and evenings with little or no sleep, crammed into small caves for shelter
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Ish didn’t expect it
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I expect Peter will give you the signal in a moment
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«I get your point,» she tried not to hiss even though she should have expected it, «but I can’t go up North again
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Her attack hadn’t gone as she had expected, and she hadn’t thought that Scar was nearly as strong as he was
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He pulled his knife to slit Fox’s throat, expected him to beg, but instead Fox laughed at him
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«I expected to be guarding the shuttlecraft this dark,» he said
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Of course she hadn’t expected to be placed in a body like this
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of expected someone a bit more
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Thicke didn’t know if he was expected to answer that or not
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I half expected something grand, formal even, but it’s not
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This was not quite the welcome that Johnny had expected, but he’d come
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Tahlmute had clearly expected his friend at the Kassikan to be working for the other side in this dispute
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Melinda had followed Theo’s rise to stardom in the fight against international crime, but this was all he had? He expected her to take a giant professional risk that could blight her career while he nosed around the tattoo parlors of Darklow town?
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This was not what Lucy expected
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She hadn’t expected this reaction, she had just been reading the signs as she always did
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Why she had expected it to be more, she couldn’t say
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With the departure going on I expected a whole screen full of urgents this morning
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He expected nothing less than the full power of her wrath
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lips that kiss, freedom, hope and love that both had expected
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The cruel voice of the big fat bully on the bus resounded in his mind and he fully expected to see her time and again on his way to work every day
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Timms nodded like he’d expected that
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The whole episode played out on a video screen, a new level in a deadly shooting game in which we were the canned crowd expected to applaud on cue
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Bahkmar wondered how Bellam expected the three hundred members of theology would convert three thousand natives
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He hadn’t expected that
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He grabbed her breast as it passed over his arm, found she was much firmer than he expected and his pants moved a bit more
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The places on her torso where the artificial limbs attached were pink ovals, lumpy with contracted fibers and at the center of it all was the titanium bone and the expected set of ports for the neural interface processors that did the fantastically complicated and nuanced task of translating between machine language and the language of the human neurological system
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Nothing had crapped out yet, but Tig kept his face like stone, expecting something he never expected to fail at any moment
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We expected the women who had Christian husbands to be kept
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Therefore, there is nothing else to do; I can only accept the situation passively, as something I actually expected
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I hadn’t expected this
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» Among the Elves one is expected to be able to read when they pass one decade and become a child
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Byram expected him back in fourteen local weeks, three quarters of the brief local year
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This was much better reception from her than he had expected
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The sheep suddenly scattered as another sound, closer, less expected, broke through the background of train, birds, sea and herbage; they regrouped a short distance beyond and stood staring
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doing what’s expected
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Luray actually looked pretty sturdy out there, compared to what Desa expected
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Son had already survived longer than the king had expected
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Alan expected the lights here in the hall would be turned up when the show ended
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This is to be expected
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‘He wasn’t, but he’s finished his work earlier than expected
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He hadn’t expected to get away with this one
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She stared at him for a long time smiling, and then stood up and did something he never expected
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’ He replied, much as I expected him to
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“Well, that went better then expected” said Joe
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The dragon flew as was expected, west towards the hills then
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Kate had not expected this response
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He was more than what she expected
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I would have expected some activity
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But that is to be expected from such procedures
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‘My folks are staunch Catholics and now they’re demanding their expected grandchild to be christened and brought up a Catholic
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Not as terrifying as I expected
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To my surprise, the cabin is tidy … I had expected Joris to be one of those men who leave things wherever they drop, but I was wrong
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He expected it would go back to normal with me at Myimpaden and Valla in his house
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And what a shock! Much colder than I expected but it didn’t take long for the spirits to come and charm me away to mythical lands and peoples
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It was now normal, expected, that the day was still mundane and muted, a cup was a vacation from the grey and not a way of life
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With every screech of metal on the wooden floor and with every yelp that came out of his mouth as he smashed his shins into rotting theatre seats, Archibald expected to be attacked by the hounds of hell, but nothing stirred within
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I had expected the house to be empty but now here I was, having to explain to this simple, unsophisticated stranger that his whole life was about to change because we were going to sell the place he called his home
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I smile at the men, unsure of what is expected of me as we pass by
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Desa had wanted Alan to find a little variety now and then and let her do likewise, she hadn’t expected him to spend half of himself on another
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He expected data to immediately flow thru that channel and as soon as that happened, he expected Ava to re-appear
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I counted the steps down into the murk until I reached the lower level, steadying myself against the cool slimy wall in case I slipped and it felt as empty down there and as hollow and devoid of any interest, except to ghosts and spirits, as I had expected
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’ I said warmly, relieved that I am not expected to dash off somewhere else immediately
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’ I gape at her … this was the last thing I expected … ‘I’ve always known it
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He expected me to give in and I’d been happy to ignore him so far but since he was prepared to persist with the charade, I was determined to have my say
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Come the time of the next World Cup every commentator expected Terry to lead his national side to the ultimate football prize
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But I had to make the sacrifice and thought that if I waited for what I expected to be toasts or dedications to begin, perhaps it would be seen, at least, as some sort of respectful gesture on my part
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Many years went by, and the world slowly returned to normal again, or as normal as could be expected in these strange times
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I fully expected that I’d sleep late after my exertions, but the reality is that I’m wide awake and raring to go by 7
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As expected, Dragons Hill was soon flooded with requests from other towns begging for a visit from Jake and Queenie
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’ We are not expected to live up to that ideal
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Nevertheless, and at the expected time, there was a knock on the front door
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I don’t know what I expected to find but I had to go
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The Tailor promised her an entire wardrobe if the orders came in as he expected
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It’s clear this isn’t what she expected me to say
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The results were due that morning and Lucy fully expected to win
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and it was only to be expected that the Gods would side with him
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“Well now, this is something new,” Duncan had half expected this, “explain
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probably expected that coming into the world would be
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We expected it
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expected in any man of worth, a woman’s beauty was quite another
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I looked into her eyes to find out the answer she expected from me
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theatre seats, Archibald expected to be attacked by the hounds of
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I expected him
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was what I had expected
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As expected, Anna is walking this way, I pre-empt her, ‘Before you go jumping to conclusions, Anna, he slept on the sofa!’
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The huge gates of the stronghold slowly swung open and there were many shouts of welcome to Lord Tarak and his men as they entered, apparently they had been expected
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The soap was much nicer than she expected, quite sudsy and with the scent of saffron
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He expected the impossible from his men; and when they didn’t comply he rid himself of them
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it should only be expected that they are not inconsiderate in their non-
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“ Sometimes it’s even expected of you to be what others would
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responsibility does the individual carry and what is the expected punishment
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Practice: place a hint to something that wasn’t expected and then make it
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commentator expected Terry to lead his national side to the
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It seemed that Yellelle’s captain was away in a small boat and not expected back for another couple days
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a few, as I had expected, and adjusted them
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of it is expected from you
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The Scathers, to their horror, were met by a group much larger than expected; their Intel was false! The battle was bloody and fierce, but the outcome never in doubt
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He climbed the steps as if he expected a crowd to begin chanting his name
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at the expected time, there was a knock on the front door
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She expected the possessiveness, but she didn’t expect the paranoia
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read about God in His word, they are not expecting
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I believe the reason they are not expecting it, is because
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He didn’t seen to understand, but he wouldn’t have been expecting it and Jorma’s pronunciation was probably atrocious
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“And you want to ask me about this? Are you kidding? Are you expecting me to feel sorry for you?” Kira was not angry, exactly, but she wondered why on earth he would have come all this way to have this particular conversation with her
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Keep believing and expecting the supernatural acts of
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Had he been expecting me to lie to him?
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When doostEr looked at him like he was expecting more he said, «Hoping to hear there’s something looking up somewhere,» and that was all he would say
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I think back to that phone call earlier … okay so I’d been expecting another of those nasty phone calls, but even so, you’d been pleased to hear his voice, hadn’t you?
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She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and
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She lasted until they both graduated … I think she was expecting it to go on, but they were unable to get jobs in the same town and, after about six months of living fifty miles apart, it fizzled out
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He zoomed in expecting to see a human figure in an exosuit floating out there in the debris, clinging to a piece of rent bulkhead like some parody of a castaway
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I scrabbled frantically around the mattress feeling for the rough weave of hessian, expecting the light on the wall to flare into life and singe to black my eyeballs
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Constantine Square on time, expecting to meet George at 6:30 pm
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Nothing had crapped out yet, but Tig kept his face like stone, expecting something he never expected to fail at any moment
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This is how I suddenly got the Key to Awareness – which allows me to experience the interrelation between time and space, to experience death and birth every moment, always expecting the unforeseeable
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Then, without my expecting it at all, he pauses and seeks to kiss and hug me
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How would they know it was me? Might they not think that the guards had cottoned-on to them and were playing a joke? Were they even now expecting the doors to slam open and the night air to be filled with the dull thud of fists and boots and wooden stocks?
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She introduced herself as a relation of JJ’s birth mother, half expecting antagonism
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She looked up expecting to see rough, serrated concrete but saw instead and to her utter amazement stars in their millions
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«This is more than I was expecting to see in Zhlindu,» he said, «This mall goes on forever
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I have primed Wiesse that we are expecting an extra incomer and assume, again from what you wrote, that it is someone with Errdian heritage – unless they are totally unsuitable, and I sincerely doubt you would be sending them across if that were the case, there will be no problem allowing him or her to stay
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He stared at the envelope as if expecting it to explode
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‘I was fully expecting them to tell me to go jump
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‘I hope you won’t take it the wrong way, Karal, but I keep expecting to detect something alien … and failing
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expecting the familiar tread of his boot,
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Angie would write herself but she is at Abery at the moment, expecting to produce their second child any day
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Despite the fact Ethereead was expecting it;
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Though it is my view that it is all part and parcel of the problem of being highly strung and expecting too much of yourself
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expecting callers” said Fred
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The four Jodechians were silent; they were not expecting anything
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She watched from inside as he gave them a lecture fully expecting them to understand what he was saying
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We have been expecting you
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But Alderfolk Pottypears was not expecting the flash and
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She was expecting to be dismissed from
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into the heat of bodies under canvas, waiting, expecting,
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’ Berndt said, ‘He’s expecting a parcel of some sort so he says
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‘It would be typical of Joris to have something I’m not expecting lurking somewhere
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‘What? I definitely wasn’t expecting that
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Jake was expecting them and chuckled when they entered the large hall
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‘Whatever do you mean?’ Clearly, this is not what he was expecting me to say
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If I’d been expecting wonderment and vitality from that room, I’d hit the right note because it was there by the barrelful
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He lay there thinking that this was it for him, expecting death he started to cry
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They all marched in to the shop expecting to see the young man lurking in the shadows, but he was nowhere to be found
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He explained that his wife was expecting and that, although they appreciated his kind gesture, the cottage was really a bit small for a growing family
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With the last word spoken quite loudly, and in clear Greek, I turned from the group with as much control as I could muster and wandered steadily and slowly toward the kitchen, expecting a blow to the head at every trembling step
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’ Caroline said, clearly expecting me to know who he is
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I wasn’t expecting that! But my new found confidence comes to my rescue and I give him a straight answer
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Look!’ I spun round expecting the worst but at that moment the Delfini cut the air with its now familiar horn announcing the arrival of the Princess of Stephanos
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The men are deep in conversation when we get back to the table, and both look at me as though expecting me to be upset in some way
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A small thin female opened the door almost instantly, “Lord Tarak, Master Denair is expecting you,” she said in a soft voice as she glided across the floor, “please follow me
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Karen put on the left boot, fully expecting havoc to break out, but
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He’s a nice looking chap – younger than I was expecting … late 30s at most I should think
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Her face’s all lit up – she’s obviously expecting a call from Jake
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She wasn’t expecting it,that was clear
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They all marched in to the shop expecting to see the young man
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expecting and that, although they appreciated his kind gesture, the
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He had been expecting Bristol or Southampton
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Jimmy will be expecting you and I’ll pick you up there
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A little taken aback by his tone, I don’t quite know what to say … what was he expecting?
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And he’s expecting a visitor
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His spade struck something solid and, expecting another tree root, he
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Expecting another call
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When she reached that point in the path, she glanced across towards the nest the Arlosh Warbler had been building, half expecting to see her little friend
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She turns to Jock, ready for a general tutting about the youth of today, expecting him to be so engrossed in the back pages of the Mail that he won’t have a clue what she is going on about
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to cry out and cover his head, expecting further
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‘Didn’t rake out the ashes – modern society! Always expecting others to clear up after them
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He looked at his feet expecting them to do something then, without any warning, crumpled at the knees, collapsing in a heap at the feet of the policeman
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The rest of the pack has disappeared, canteen bound, not expecting any action until the intensive care unit chucks out at around eight o’clock
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Cottage walls bulge into the constricted lanes, and he eases the car round each corner, expecting to meet a four-by-four at every blind spot
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One visitor he had been expecting was Sergeant Brasham
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‘Surely you were expecting this, Sire?’
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Delurna drew a breath, not expecting this opening gambit
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Maybe it would be what he was expecting
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He was paired with a successful fashion designer and they were expecting a child
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threw back the liquid in the glass, expecting it to be water
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He’d arrived just after dawn expecting the
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I was expecting it in fact
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He stopped the polishing expecting to see one of the other janitors
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In a way it is easier now that we know what the situation is, but, I for one had been expecting a happy outcome … I remind myself this is real life, not a fairy story
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‘Oh? What did he write in this e-mail?’ she asked, clearly expecting the worst
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We were expecting him to pass away for quite some time,» Monica said
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him nothing new, and he’d been expecting something with
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hopped up expecting to collect all three of their plates and the two trays for the
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She was expecting a hurriedly arranged visit from a most special someone, and hoped to have all well prepared against that occasion before the appointed time
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dim crypt half expecting the man’s colleagues to suddenly
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hadn’t been expecting – the man appeared in the doorway
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Slowly, she walked to the window, expecting to see more than the dell, but that was all that was there
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«Its winter,» she started, half expecting him to pull away in shock, but he only held tight
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She was expecting a better response then she received, but at least they went back to work and not to bed
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Harry just took her on as if expecting her there all along, and she said she damned near fainted with relief
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You know, I have a colleague right here was expecting to leave for Chicago before March, 1981 by fiancée visa
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» She looked down expecting the worst, but when not a word fell from his lips, she debated if she’d said the wrong thing
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He was expecting Nathan Goldstein at 15:30
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Not expecting to spend the night there, she’d nothing to cover her battered body
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weren’t expecting to travel far
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So I’m expecting to get an A on this exam because I had the leading constitutional law experts and I wrote down what they said about various constitutional law issues, exactly what he wanted
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– every second expecting Roberto to realise that it was
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She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which way? Which way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way
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on beer and – a luxury he hadn’t been expecting — fresh
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Lopez professes to be the only ‘Absolutely Organic’ spraying/pest specialist in the United States (at this time, even though he expects more to come out), pointing out that
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«And Ava expects us to start training about
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and know what Christ expects of the church
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They should also know what God expects of them once an eldership is in place
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He laughs to himself, anticipating her sweet response, but what she says to him isn’t what he expects
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Since everyone expects to live indefinitely, there is a lot more incentive to think sustainably in this culture
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After awhile your brain expects to be stoned, so being stoned is normal to it
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‘I sent one with a query to him and in his reply he says he expects to be here late afternoon
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Reliability Do the things which another expects of you if those
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Billy fully expects to be wearing his coffee within moments
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The glare of flashbulbs is the last thing Billy expects as he heads down the walkway from the car park towards the main hospital entrance, and he takes a few seconds to realise that his name is being called
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“He has eleven, he expects us to know them all, especially the ones who have been here
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He hurries round to the driver’s door, which is open, and seeing his car abandoned in such an out of the way spot, Billy fully expects to find ripped out wires and a gaping hole in the facia where the CD player used to be
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Hearing the third ring Maggie fully expects the carefully chosen words of the voicemail lady to lay down the usual barriers to direct communication, but Maggie’s rattling train of thought is rudely derailed by a male voice
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He thinks that what happens around him is merely a reproduction of what he already right properly expects, and as you know yourself, he expects a lot
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Though in settling them some regard is had commonly, not only to his labour and skill, but to the trust which is reposed in him, yet they never bear any regular proportion to the capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital, though he is thus discharged of almost all labour, still expects that his profit should bear a regular proportion to his capital
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He expects to maintain his family by
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It is commonly said that a sugar planter expects that the rum and the molasses should defray the whole expense of his cultivation, and that his sugar should be all clear profit
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That part which he expects is to afford him this revenue is called his capital
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Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always expects it to be replaced to him with a profit
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He expects that in due time it is to be restored to him, and that, in the mean time, the borrower is to pay him a certain annual rent for the use of it
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The one often sees his money go from him, and return to him again with a profit; the other, when once he parts with it, very seldom expects to see any more of it
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It is in years of scarcity, however, when prices are high, that the corn merchant expects to make his principal profit
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The increase of revenue which the proprietor, who is always the undertaker, expects from their improvement, constitutes his profit, which, in these circumstances, is commonly very great; but this great profit cannot be made, without employing the labour of other people in clearing and cultivating the land; and the disproportion between the great extent of the land and the small number of the people, which commonly takes place in new colonies, makes it difficult for him to get this labour
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doing the doing that the real world expects; but I am not
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He expects his profit, not so much from the price of the fleece, as from that of the carcase; and the average or ordinary price of the latter must even, in many cases, make up to him whatever deficiency there may be in the average or ordinary price of the former
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Their employer, as he advances to them the stock of materials, tools, and wages, necessary for their employment, so he advances to himself what is necessary for his own maintenance; and this maintenance he generally proportions to the profit which he expects to make by the price of their work
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His chief or sovereign (for those nations have all chiefs or sovereigns) is at no sort of expense in preparing him for the field ; and when he is in it, the chance of plunder is the only pay which he either expects or requires
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Frequently a man of great, sometimes even a man of small fortune, is willing to purchase a thousand pounds share in India stock, merely for the influence which he expects to aquire by a vote in the court of proprietors
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This type of shot still allows the golfer to get all the power he or she ordinarily would with his or her seven-wood, along with the elevation he or she expects, But without the negative
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Place where one expects to find hospitality
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Your brain expects you to stick to a routine or a schedule and that’s what it prepares for
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I cannot tell you exactly what the deed shall be, or that would force your hand, and quite honestly, “Daltrez crumbled in pain for a moment, “I don’t think you are ready to attempt the change in your destiny that the world expects
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It just did not have the natural balance one expects from such weapons, so the Special Task Force used the excellent Heckler & Koch MP5 during hostage rescues
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‖ 3) Developing positive attitudes by believing in themselves; that is to say, having sufficient faith in one‘s self and becoming what he or she expects ―to be
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It is an inherent response to immoral or inappropriate behavior contrary to what God expects from any individual or what that individual (should) otherwise perceive intuitively
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Addendum to the above: The greatest risk to an individual‘s spiritual well-being lies in theological assumptions seeking to reconcile what that individual understands to be (private) matters of conscience and what God (otherwise) expects from His followers
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Grace does not invalidate Free Will that, however expressed in accordance with God‘s (purposeful) designs, allows every individual to charter his or her own chosen course; that is to say, to decide whether to (freely) accept or reject what God expects from each of us or has to offer us if we willingly accept it with an open heart
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A righteous God expects righteous attitudes
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No one expects them to throw in the towel, however
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that the one asking the question expects to die
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We are conscious that the world expects our solution eagerly, therefore, it is worthwhile the investment
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how god expects us, His children, to handle a way-faring stranger
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“What?” She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise
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I should be what she expects
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” She says it wildly, like she expects us to refuse
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That expects to be revealed in rightest times
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The results speaks for themselves in the book, so I expects to heal
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I expects my health to become even better in a year’s time, so I’ll
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What God wills and expects from His people is plainly found in the pages of the Blessed Book
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It is also true that the Lord expects us to use a certain amount of common
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bottom line here is that Paul expects us to grieve
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and accept others without the usual attachments and conditions that society expects
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175 If one intends or expects – perhaps subconsciously
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Life expects us to move on
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The Federal Energy Information Administration expects world oil demand to grow significantly over the next 30 years, from 80
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It expects Indian coal fired power to grow too – though more slowly
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expects His law to be followed
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front of us—but instead perceive a pink rat that ‘blocks’ the perception of what one expects to
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expects us to take care of the neighbor’s household as well
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(God expects to have the first and the best
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outcome, but only because the space of the subject, an outcome of a coin toss, expects (awaits,
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(Of whom God gives much, He expects much
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“Look, Nemia, I dearly love Talia, but I am not blind to the fact that every single elven female is beautiful! Now a man expects that he will have to exert a certain measure of willpower to resist the allure of other attractive girls after he gets married
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But for pure, dazzling, breathtaking beauty, there are two of you who are her equal, and it just doesn’t seem fair that you should be one of the two! I mean, a man expects his mother-in-law to be wrinkled and gray, and neither you nor Talia look a day older than I am! In fact, if I hadn’t been told, I wouldn’t be able to choose which of you is older than the other!”
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“There ain’t no way a girl comes out to a bar like that and expects not to be stared out
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When Ralph enters, pushing aside the torn curtain that hangs down in what he imagines is a vain attempt to keep out the wind, he expects the room to be empty
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He expects to die
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When he wakes, he expects to see sky and know abandonment, but neither of those assumptions proves to be true
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Then, when he expects to be plunged into darkness, his throat opens and he sucks in air
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Annyeke, meanwhile, widens her eyes, and the sensation of her surprise hits him when he least expects it
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Simon’s reaction is not what he expects
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«It means I haven’t been given a clear-cut mission, I don’t really know what the President expects of me, but I could be relieved of my position in a heartbeat for violating rules that aren’t even thought up yet
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“I suppose He expects me to succeed
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She accepts that she can’t have more love than you can give her, and that’s all she expects
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She has done what her brother expects and it is Johan who speaks next
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That’s the kind of respect he expects to receive
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Although I shouldn’t assume that responsibility, she acts as if she expects me to
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expects a glorious Easter beyond the grave
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It expects me not to complain,
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A confrontation with superspace would not only be bewildering; it can drive a person, who expects nothing but classical physical behavior, insane
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I don’t want to be such externally but deep inside my heart as our Führer expects from us
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Lafley said that he expects his business units to have somewhere between 10 to 30 percent of their innovation portfolio focused on disruptive innovation
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His demon horde expects an attack on pharaoh’s mind but to their consternation he can’t seem to get closer
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Zoroastro has personally signed the order of your capture and expects you to be the first to be processed with this new law
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and what the customer expects, and prioritize product or service
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The human mind EXPECTS to see certain Steps in any real
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hateful God, but God expects certain things from his children and these things are not be
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A market maker—the bank making or quoting a price — expects the bank that is calling to reciprocate with respect to making a price when called upon
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My father expects me to hate my mother like he does
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SURE WHAT MY BOSS EXPECTS OF MEv
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EXPECTS IS THAT YOU SEEK TO WORK WITH THEM AND NOT JUST FOR THEMv
- Use the word Expect in a sentences
Sentence Examples
I»m shaken to pieces. What did you expect?
What do you expect to do?
You can not expect that from me
But I did not expect this
I didn’t ever expect that that would be a possibility on this show, and every day that I’m here, I feel like I’m an idiot for staying, that I am gonna end up like Tommy.
I don’t expect anything from you.
What do you expect from a one night stand?
How can you expect yourself to handle all that?
I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Do not expect me to thank you!
«I expect a bit more politeness.»
When a charmed life turns professional, we can expect great things.
Today Woman brought up grom childhood to expect ONE CONSTANT MATE possibly suffers more than at any point in the history of mankind, because not yet has the man-animal reached this high standard — except perhaps in theory.
Yes, I expect to stay quite a time — that is, if we suit each other.
The Danish people expect news of the birth of a successor to the throne.
expect me tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock!
But as though now he had given me his all, his everything and as though I had nothing… nothing more to expect.
How do you expect me to confess to that which is not true?»
«IN ANY CASE, YOU CAN TELL LORENZ THAT I expect HIM AT MY PLACE TODAY!»
Look, Leni, when you the son of a wealthy farmer and expect a large inheritance, one does not sit with the homeless …
«┬┐Paqueno, do you really expect me to become a scoundrel to my subjects?»
Must she disappoint those who expect her to perform?
Don’t try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both.
«When you were a schoolboy I gave you a trashing that I expect you have remember to this day.»
«I expect I’m partly to blame…
I’ll see you there. Don’t expect anything from me, you shit.
Don’t expect anything from me, I don’t want a kid.
But how in thunder do you expect to get it up to us?
«I didn’t expect that we would meet again so soon.»
It’s been three years — what did you expect me to do?»
«I expect you to bring me the license in the morning.
«An’ I guess you expect me to thank you for bein’ decent enough to make me your wife.»
How do you expect me to make up?»
And what reward do you expect from Our Lord?
When do you expect the Cisco Kid to come back?
What do you expect me to do after the deal you’ve given me?
Why there’s a couple of dames in this troupe good at things you’d never expect to see, even if they do make their living shaking.
Do you expect the entire machinary of Scotland Yard to be held up to please you?
I don’t expect the ring will be worth very much.
I didn’t expect you so soon! They got something planned!
I didn┬┤t expect you so soon.
Do you expect from me to shout like you?
Well, they’ll expect us to.
I wouldn’t dare expect to be happy.
Roy. You don’t expect me to go through with a farce like this.
Listen, the first thing you have to do is to arrange a tea party this afternoon at my apartment. I expect 15 guests at 5 o’clock sharp.
Why, she’s down at the station, I expect.
I’m doing a lot for you, Rico, but when I get you planted I’ll expect plenty of service.
I»m shaken to pieces. What did you expect?
What do you expect to do?
You can not expect that from me
But I did not expect this
I didn’t ever expect that that would be a possibility on this show, and every day that I’m here, I feel like I’m an idiot for staying, that I am gonna end up like Tommy.
I don’t expect anything from you.
What do you expect from a one night stand?
How can you expect yourself to handle all that?
I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Do not expect me to thank you!
«I expect a bit more politeness.»
When a charmed life turns professional, we can expect great things.
Today Woman brought up grom childhood to expect ONE CONSTANT MATE possibly suffers more than at any point in the history of mankind, because not yet has the man-animal reached this high standard — except perhaps in theory.
Yes, I expect to stay quite a time — that is, if we suit each other.
The Danish people expect news of the birth of a successor to the throne.
expect me tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock!
But as though now he had given me his all, his everything and as though I had nothing… nothing more to expect.
How do you expect me to confess to that which is not true?»
«IN ANY CASE, YOU CAN TELL LORENZ THAT I expect HIM AT MY PLACE TODAY!»
Look, Leni, when you the son of a wealthy farmer and expect a large inheritance, one does not sit with the homeless …
«┬┐Paqueno, do you really expect me to become a scoundrel to my subjects?»
Must she disappoint those who expect her to perform?
Don’t try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both.
«When you were a schoolboy I gave you a trashing that I expect you have remember to this day.»
«I expect I’m partly to blame…
I’ll see you there. Don’t expect anything from me, you shit.
Don’t expect anything from me, I don’t want a kid.
But how in thunder do you expect to get it up to us?
«I didn’t expect that we would meet again so soon.»
It’s been three years — what did you expect me to do?»
«I expect you to bring me the license in the morning.
«An’ I guess you expect me to thank you for bein’ decent enough to make me your wife.»
How do you expect me to make up?»
And what reward do you expect from Our Lord?
When do you expect the Cisco Kid to come back?
What do you expect me to do after the deal you’ve given me?
Why there’s a couple of dames in this troupe good at things you’d never expect to see, even if they do make their living shaking.
Do you expect the entire machinary of Scotland Yard to be held up to please you?
I don’t expect the ring will be worth very much.
I didn’t expect you so soon! They got something planned!
I didn┬┤t expect you so soon.
Do you expect from me to shout like you?
Well, they’ll expect us to.
I wouldn’t dare expect to be happy.
Roy. You don’t expect me to go through with a farce like this.
Listen, the first thing you have to do is to arrange a tea party this afternoon at my apartment. I expect 15 guests at 5 o’clock sharp.
Why, she’s down at the station, I expect.
I’m doing a lot for you, Rico, but when I get you planted I’ll expect plenty of service.