Example sentences of "have expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 2 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 3 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 4 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 6 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 8 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 9 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 10 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 11 | Had they returned the Americans would certainly not have expected another raid and victory would have been assured for the Japanese . |
| 12 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 13 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 14 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 15 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 17 | Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them . |
| 18 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 19 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 20 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 21 | We might have expected this switch to reinforce the downward trend in the ratio of direct to indirect tax receipts . |
| 22 | Bill had expected that question , but he could not prevent there coming across his inward eye the memory of the grubby calendar in Onyx 's kitchen , with the new red ring round Thursday the twenty-ninth . |
| 23 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 24 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
| 25 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 26 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 27 | While chairman David Gare said the group performed well throughout the year , he had expected this year 's figures to be better than last . |
| 28 | Marguerite 's voice was warm when Jenna had expected another burst of either anger or distress . |
| 29 | The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity . |
| 30 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |