Example sentences of "would have expected a " in BNC.

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1 I would have expected a letter from him .
2 We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost .
3 Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it .
4 They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous .
5 Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember .
6 Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff .
7 Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm .
8 So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time .
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