Sentence examples for you almost expected from inspiring English sources
You almost expected it to happen.
Everyone seemed to know everyone else — you almost expected to see plates passed from table to table.
His Beethoven concerts were capped with whole Bach partitas, and here you almost expected him to add "Carnaval" or the "Abegg" Variations.
During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: "We wants it.
You almost expected Mr. Tyson to walk out when Ms. Lynch, singing the song "Little Girls" from "Annie," delivered the lyric, "I'd like a man to nibble on my ear, but I'll admit no man has bit".
Writing about a foreign country seems to kick Ms. Freudenberger's gift for observation into high gear, and she does a visceral job of conjuring the place where Amina grew up: the countryside "so green that you almost expected to look up and see a green sun in the sky; the city streets, hazardous with mobs and rickshaws and pools of black sewage.
Nicholas Ray's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) may look tame these 45 years later, with its switchblade threats, "chicky runs" and toughs who seem more mischievous than anything else (you almost expect some of them to burst into "Gee, Officer Krupke"), but teenagers who got into trouble in the 1950's ended up just as dead as their counterparts today.
The paper tablecloths, the lack of ceremony or fuss, the bright lighting, the small wineglasses, the butterless bread, the crisp, bustling reserve of the waitresses, in their black dresses and white aprons (you almost expect them to break out their purses at the end of the meal to make change): it all brings to mind a bare-bones bistro next door to a train station.
There is something all too mature in the figure of the youthful Housman, standing for an hour among the graves on a winter's afternoon (you almost expect a Magwitch to grab him by the neck); he is putting away childish things with a vengeance, and to gaze toward your loved ones without being able to join them seems like early training for a life of emotional exile.
The starcrossed boy wanders the violent streets like Tony searching for Maria, and at one point--when the hero is asked by his gang if he's "in" on the rumble--you almost expect him to say "womb to tomb, sperm to worm".
You almost expect him to levitate.
