Example sentences of "have expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 2 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 3 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 4 | It took her a moment to realize that she 'd expected Daak to add his comment , and that he had n't done so . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 6 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 10 | Had Voltaire used such a title as The Nature of Prejudice , his readers may have expected criticisms of clerics . |
| 11 | Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth . |
| 12 | From the title , some might have expected Lilley to give an indication of his hopes for revival in the near future . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She would have expected anger , not this — nothingness . |
| 15 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 16 | Because , if that had been so , one could have expected Jasper too to have returned home . |
| 17 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 18 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 19 | It was how he would have expected Frankie to react . |
| 20 | Never would he have expected encounters with an assault force of Chelonians and the galaxy 's most notorious criminal in the space of a day . |
| 21 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 22 | As the Caribbean Creoles are all fairly similar to each other , we might have expected Trudgill 's processes of " levelling " and " simplification " to have applied to produce a " British Caribbean Creole " sharing features of all the Caribbean Creoles with significant numbers of speakers in Britain . |
| 23 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 24 | No one , of course , had expected Father Kendrick to stay . |
| 25 | Many observers had expected Rafeeuddin Ahmed , the UN Under-Secretary-General responsible for Cambodia since 1982 , to take charge of the operation . |
| 26 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 27 | He had expected weakness to yield to strength . |
| 28 | The auction house had expected £3 million from the sale — it got £10 million . |
| 29 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 30 | She had n't anticipated spending her first night on board quite alone ; she had expected Fenella , Caro 's stepsister , to be here too . |