half-expected

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.

Haven

When the tangle of bodies cleared up, I half-expected Karen to be weeping and ready to leave.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

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.

The first sentence I wrote today…

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

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.

The Mondays: There Goes My "Heroes"

Morrell manages to keep us guessing the whole way through -- as I mentioned earlier, I half-expected the hotel to be haunted.

Book Review: "Creepers" by David Morrell

I half-expected him to wave his arm and a magic fireplace to appear, and then I shook myself.

Raziel

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.

Raziel

He was covered with blood, his eyes dark and glazed, and I half-expected him to yell at me.

Raziel

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'