Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect find [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 2 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 3 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 4 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 5 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |