Example sentences of "have expect it to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |
| 2 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 3 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 4 | I find it boring , it 's not particularly useful — it 's very academic , more so than I would have expected it to be . |
| 5 | One might have expected it to be either suffocated or swallowed up . |
| 6 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 7 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 8 | She had expected it to be weighted , to feel cold and heavy . |
| 9 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 10 | It was unoccupied , as he had expected it to be . |
| 11 | This was not the way he had expected it to be , at all . |
| 12 | To take one example , how will workers respond to the realization that the rate of inflation is not zero , as they had expected it to be , but is in fact positive ? |