Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 2 | It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him . |
| 3 | She had accepted that she could not help loving him , but she had not expected this result . |
| 4 | He had not expected colonial argot from such a source . |
| 5 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |