Example sentences of "have expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I 'd expected a stunt-man who pulled off hair-raising feats for kicks . |
| 2 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 3 | Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it . |
| 4 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 5 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 6 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 7 | She would never have expected a cheer . |
| 8 | They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous . |
| 9 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 10 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 11 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 12 | Some detector users living in Kent might have expected an invitation but did n't get one , while at least two of those invited ( who have made no mention of the meeting on the several occasions I have spoken to them ) do not live in Kent . |
| 13 | It was the sort of time and place where one might have expected an idea , the spring of a poem to well up from the quiet and the beauty . |
| 14 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 16 | No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 . |
| 17 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test . |
| 18 | In view of the presence of the Prince there , and especially in the light of some critical remarks he had made recently about the IRA , I had expected a posse of police to be guarding the entrance gates . |
| 19 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 20 | He had expected a rise in road duty , but was hoping for a clearer differential between diesel and petrol prices . |
| 21 | He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant , at the least a maid or companion , to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets . |
| 22 | The paint frame had expected a delivery earlier that morning , until Haggerty 's had rung through to say the van had broken down . |
| 23 | But if she had expected a reaction of guilty surprise she was disappointed . |
| 24 | Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation . |
| 25 | Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation . |
| 26 | Montgomery had expected an air of authority from this venerable man , who had spent most of his seventy-odd years lecturing students , but Aubrey St John Goth seemed distant , distracted , his grey eyes veiled by a deep sadness . |
| 27 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |