Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth . |
| 2 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 3 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 4 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 5 | She would have expected anger , not this — nothingness . |
| 6 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |