Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the last thing I 'd expect of Oliver . |
| 2 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's more what you 'd expect of Durham country than Hertfordshire . ’ |
| 4 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 5 | As you would expect of Britain 's leading publisher of legal information for business and industry , we have devised a loose-leaf reference service that will keep you up-to-date monthly with all the important legal developments likely to affect your business . |
| 6 | ‘ Economical , refined , clean but also powerful , BMW 's diesel is what you would expect of BMW but no less remarkable for that ’ |
| 7 | But The Waste Land 's sounds , rather than sights , come closest to enacting savage ritual , as we might expect of Eliot 's ‘ auditory imagination ’ . |
| 8 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |