Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 2 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 3 | I was more surprised than gratified , for without having really considered it I would have expected unsolicited adoration to annoy Nour , to lead to stone-throwing … |
| 4 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 5 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 6 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |
| 7 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 8 | We might have expected this switch to reinforce the downward trend in the ratio of direct to indirect tax receipts . |
| 9 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |