Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the title , some might have expected Lilley to give an indication of his hopes for revival in the near future . |
| 2 | As the Caribbean Creoles are all fairly similar to each other , we might have expected Trudgill 's processes of " levelling " and " simplification " to have applied to produce a " British Caribbean Creole " sharing features of all the Caribbean Creoles with significant numbers of speakers in Britain . |
| 3 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 4 | Because , if that had been so , one could have expected Jasper too to have returned home . |
| 5 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 6 | Had Voltaire used such a title as The Nature of Prejudice , his readers may have expected criticisms of clerics . |
| 7 | Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth . |
| 8 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 9 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 10 | She would have expected anger , not this — nothingness . |
| 11 | It was how he would have expected Frankie to react . |
| 12 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 13 | A buyer may come to expect concessions from a seller in return for purchasing . |
| 14 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |