Example sentences of "have expected [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few pieces of furniture looked old , solid , and unprepossessing , the kind of stuff that Pete would have expected to see at the bargain end of a market-town auction . |
| 2 | It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots . |
| 3 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 4 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 5 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 6 | A rector was , in her view , part of the traditional and comic cast list she had expected to find in the country , along with the squire and the village idiot . |
| 7 | It 's expected to look at the affect of the closure and what can be done about it . |