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Most days I half-expected to hear his voice in my head—asking for forgiveness, asking to meet me after class, chastising me for abandoning my so-called training.
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When the tangle of bodies cleared up, I half-expected Karen to be weeping and ready to leave.
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Amlinn did as she was told, but she still half-expected to be arrested by the Priests the moment she set foot in the street.
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So expertly was Redknapp's head framed – window fully scrolled down, relaxed in open-necked shirt – that you half-expected him to start plugging a fitness DVD or leaping up to perform his latest single.
Transfer deadline day's hype is over, long live the quavering hype | Barney Ronay
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I half-expected to see a gussied up version of "Mutant X" after hearing about plans to produce a show about regular people with extraordinary abilities.
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Morrell manages to keep us guessing the whole way through -- as I mentioned earlier, I half-expected the hotel to be haunted.
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I half-expected him to wave his arm and a magic fireplace to appear, and then I shook myself.
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I half-expected one of the angelic gatekeepers to stop me as I went toward the door, but no one seemed to have any time for me, an absolute blessing.
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He was covered with blood, his eyes dark and glazed, and I half-expected him to yell at me.
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On Sunday evening , the people who had half-expected Naoto Kan, the prime minister, to join a string of ignominious exits, were watching him make an unusually passionate plea for unity and resilience - the same qualities that had lifted Japan from postwar despair.
Japanese prime minister calls for unity in country's 'worst crisis since the war'
yarb commented on the word half-expected
...but pint received. Ta, landlord.
October 6, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word half-expected
You're half-right.
October 5, 2010
bilby commented on the word half-expected
What's if it's expecting in the sense of being with child, as in, errr, half-pregnant.
October 5, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word half-expected
ergo half-unexpected
October 5, 2010