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. |
Charlie died in 2004, and I half-expected his motorcycle to slip out the back door of the garage and join him, but here it is, about to be subjected to far less confident hands than those of its master. |
You half-expected to see creative credits rolling at the end. |
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. |
To hear Bon tell it, the rupture was half-expected but nonetheless a shock. |