Exactly as Slate had predicted.
Just like Slate anticipated.
Slate never saw it coming.
a magician is doing a trick
A skier is having a picture taken.
The children are on a patio.
A bald man is at a bar hitting on a female who wants nothing to do with him.
A girl and boy are reading books.
Natalia stirred quietly in her sleep and drifted back without a word.