Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
2 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
3 | However , Tory leader Coun Lawrie Wild has said he expects Coun Woodhead to do the ‘ honourable thing ’ . |
4 | Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship ; Lloydy has fulfilled everything expected of him ; and Peter has shown as much potential as any seamer of his age . ’ |
5 | The recognition that a text may set up its own secondary norms leads to a further conclusion , that features of language within that text may depart from the norms of the text itself : that is , they may " stand out " against the background of what the text has led us to expect . |
6 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
7 | At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package . |
8 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
9 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
10 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
11 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
12 | As Jespersen points out , " here we have a reference to an event that is past , or at any rate contemporaneous , in relation to the time of the main verb " , that is , just the opposite sequence of events to that which our hypothesis should have led us to expect . |
13 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
14 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
15 | Fielding had told me to expect trouble from Lorne on several counts . |
16 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
17 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
18 | Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect . |
19 | It was not the kind of approach to the situation that the survey briefing had led him to expect , and Rostov realised that he was going to have to adjust his notions about standards of behaviour . |
20 | The room was comfortable , though scarcely as ‘ princely ’ as the guidebook had led him to expect . |
21 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
22 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
23 | It was encouraging to find some children apparently receiving a good standard of care : for example , GCSE results were higher than previously reported research had led us to expect ( Fletcher-Campbell and Hall , 1990 ) . |
24 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
25 | The conversation had seldom strayed from the case and Wickham 's bouncy arrival at the flat and invitation to supper had encouraged her to expect something more . |
26 | He had never questioned either her motives or her decisions , allowing her a most aristocratic freedom of movement far beyond anything her middle-class upbringing in general and her life with her father in particular had encouraged her to expect . |
27 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
28 | Where the indicators of a thriving community life are ostensibly absent , they may even try to create the ‘ community ’ which their preconceptions of rural life have led them to expect . |
29 | But , if the truth be told , although we would like companies to get it right first time , our experiences have led us to expect rather less . |