Example sentences of "have expect [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
2 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
3 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
4 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
5 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
6 | I could hardly have expected to hear a complete stranger making such a blatant and … and totally unwarranted assassination of my character . |
7 | Mercury had expected to provide a non-profit service with Cable and Wireless like its morale-booster during the Gulf war . |
8 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |