Example sentences of "have expect [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’
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 Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances .
4 Had Voltaire used such a title as The Nature of Prejudice , his readers may have expected criticisms of clerics .
5 Had he smiled I would have expected gold teeth .
6 From the title , some might have expected Lilley to give an indication of his hopes for revival in the near future .
7 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 .
8 She would have expected anger , not this — nothingness .
9 About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet .
10 Because , if that had been so , one could have expected Jasper too to have returned home .
11 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 .
12 Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery .
13 It was how he would have expected Frankie to react .
14 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 .
15 Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship .
16 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 .
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