Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 2 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 3 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 4 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 5 | They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous . |