Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
| 2 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 3 | Fielding had told me to expect trouble from Lorne on several counts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The room was comfortable , though scarcely as ‘ princely ’ as the guidebook had led him to expect . |
| 9 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |