Example sentences of "have expect [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
2 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
3 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
4 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
5 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
6 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
7 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
8 | Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them . |
9 | He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour . |
10 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
11 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
12 | Marguerite 's voice was warm when Jenna had expected another burst of either anger or distress . |
13 | The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity . |