Example sentences of "you would expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 2 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 3 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
| 4 | You 'd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it would n't you ? |
| 5 | At night George did what you 'd expect a husband to but I did n't mind . |
| 6 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 7 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |