Example sentences of "would expect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 2 | He comes over well as a person , with all the outer confidence you 'd expect of a company representative . |
| 3 | It 's the last thing I 'd expect of Oliver . |
| 4 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's more what you 'd expect of Durham country than Hertfordshire . ’ |
| 6 | You , at least , I 'd expect to be a bit of a sport ! ’ |
| 7 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 8 | That 's about what you 'd expect for a tractor of this size . |
| 9 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
| 10 | The stitching is well finished and the Safari is a good quality shirt — but no more than you 'd expect for the price . |
| 11 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 12 | But I 'm always reminded of a large bomber aircraft coming in to land , moving very much more slowly than you 'd expect for something of its size . |
| 13 | As you 'd expect with this age group , there is an immediate barrage of responses . |
| 14 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 15 | As you 'd expect on the Isle of Wight there 's an endless list of bed and breakfasts . |
| 16 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 17 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 18 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
| 19 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 20 | Well this boat 's fitted with the race pack which gives it a lot of the extra controls that you 'd expect on a larger sail boat . |
| 21 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 22 | ‘ Normally we 'd expect about 2t/acre . ’ |
| 23 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 24 | As you 'd expect in this part of the world , the route passes through spectacular countryside . |
| 25 | Like you 'd expect in a palace . |
| 26 | Again Joy mentioned it , because of course it 's important , you 'd expect in a , in a Freudian theory . |
| 27 | It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course . |
| 28 | Richard thought the car ‘ very well designed , with the intelligent features you 'd expect from Volvo . ’ |
| 29 | Everything you 'd expect from a Summer holiday — yet so much more |
| 30 | And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway . |