Example sentences of "he [modal v] have expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene . |
| 2 | I mean , that 's what he must have expected . ’ |
| 3 | To birdie with a long par-4 coming up was a great bonus when he might have expected to bogey . |
| 4 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 5 | Everard stood up , embarrassed by her lack of control ; the family trait had skipped him by , but it had surfaced in Kit with a vengeance , and of course , as he might have expected , been compounded in Kit 's daughter by Astrid 's capriciousness . |
| 6 | George , returning to the house rather earlier than he might have expected , put his head under the cold tap and let the delicious water course over him . |
| 7 | Colin Beveridge , the fanzine 's assistant editor and chief vendor , was doing the sort of trade he might have expected by selling the Rock of Ages song sheet . |
| 8 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 9 | He could have expected a weekly salary approaching £10,000 , plus all the other expensive trimmings , if he had become Britain 's most expensive ever midfield player . |
| 10 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |
| 11 | He 'd have expected her to wait hungrily for his kissess and his caresses , to come to life when he whispered her name … |
| 12 | He found his account , as he would have expected , consistent , and considered the man carefully as he did so . |
| 13 | He said he would have expected to be consulted . |
| 14 | The voice , with its timbre of upper-class arrogance , an arrogance of which its owner so often seems unaware , was exactly as he would have expected . |
| 15 | It was how he would have expected Frankie to react . |
| 16 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 17 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 18 | Former Tory party chairman Cecil Parkinson was on the trail of the floating voter but it was proving more difficult than perhaps he would have expected . |
| 19 | Walsh 's investigations made more rapid progress than he can have expected . |