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1  To be killed was what you expected.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  'I know what you expect me to say,' he said.
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3  He paused as though he expected Winston to speak.
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4  You expect me to say as I'd sooner be young again.
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5  What he had actually expected was to see her naked.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  I expect I'm better at finding things out than you are, dear.
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7  The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
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8  A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.
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9  'I expect you were a beastly little swine in those days,' she said indistinctly.
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10  A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm.
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11  His eyes flitted round the walls, as though he half expected to find a window somewhere.
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12  There was much talk about the forced-labour camps to which most of the prisoners expected to be sent.
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13  That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.
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14  Since he did not in fact know what kind of help he expected from O'Brien, it was not easy to say why he had come here.
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15  She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
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16  The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents, as though it were in the bar-room that he expected the changes to have occurred.
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17  Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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