Example sentences of "have [adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At 30 years old , I 'd really expected a slow labour . |
2 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
3 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
4 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
5 | Whatever reaction Doyle had expected , he had n't expected a sneering laugh . |
6 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |