As we got out of the van we half-expected to see some old boy in dungarees with skin like a sun dried prune, sat in a rocking chair playing blues harmonica. |
He half-expected the centre's doors to be locked, having heard it was closed for a few years, cut off by international funders due to mismanagement. |
I half-expected to see Grace Adler walk up to the podium and complain about men while gorging on chocolate silk pie. |
I half-expected him to give each manatee a friendly slap across the back, he reminded me so much of a local politician courting his constituents. |
By the time Sam entered the front door through a pair of metal detectors, he half-expected to find the student hall monitors equipped with machine guns. |
I half-expected him to barnstorm out in riding boots and harangue us, Mussolini-style, underlit from a plinth. |