Example sentences of "had expect a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 2 | City analysts had expected a further £50m worth of debt repayment during the month . |
| 3 | He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant , at the least a maid or companion , to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets . |
| 4 | This later recommendation surprised many who had expected a liberal/academic working party of ‘ the great and the good ’ to turn their backs on the idea of retaining a paternalistic and arguably outmoded system of adult censorship . |
| 5 | The general relaxed and participative style of the course was enjoyed by the participants , as some had expected a ‘ chalk and talk ’ approach . |
| 6 | Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe . |
| 7 | In view of the presence of the Prince there , and especially in the light of some critical remarks he had made recently about the IRA , I had expected a posse of police to be guarding the entrance gates . |
| 8 | She had expected a deep blue Mediterranean sky . |
| 9 | He had expected a rise in road duty , but was hoping for a clearer differential between diesel and petrol prices . |
| 10 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 11 | Neither Marshal Joffre , General Foch ( his deputy in the north ) nor Sir John' French had expected a German attack in Flanders . |
| 12 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 13 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 14 | The paint frame had expected a delivery earlier that morning , until Haggerty 's had rung through to say the van had broken down . |
| 15 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 16 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |
| 17 | For some reason I had expected a foreign accent ; but I could place this exactly . |
| 18 | Dexter had expected a bigger and taller man with the harsh glint of money-making in his eyes , rather than this relaxed , almost shambling , figure . |
| 19 | But if she had expected a reaction of guilty surprise she was disappointed . |
| 20 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 21 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 22 | Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation . |
| 23 | Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation . |
| 24 | The fall in seasonally adjusted unemployment of 22,000 last month was even more of a surprise , at a time when forecasters had expected a further rise of 35,000 . |
| 25 | British diplomats , who had been in contact with the Chinese foreign ministry for weeks trying to get them to resume talks , had expected a stormy ride yesterday . |
| 26 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |