Example sentences of "have expected " in BNC.
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| 31 | She would have expected it . |
| 32 | You could n't have expected it , he had been doubtful about this day from the beginning . |
| 33 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 34 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 35 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 36 | Nail clippers , combs , toothpaste and toothbrushes , razors and washbags are neatly laid out on tables in the cells to await the arrival of inmates , many of whom will not be carrying such items because they may not have expected to be remanded in custody . |
| 37 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 38 | That , dare one suggest , is what Wainwright would have expected of us . |
| 39 | Chief coach Rod Carr could hardly have expected such a position at this stage of the Olympic run-up and it is a justification of the Richard Ellis elite squad system under which financial and training assistance has been concentrated on a small number of the best sailors in each class . |
| 40 | ‘ 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 . |
| 41 | But who 'd have expected great lasagna ? |
| 42 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 43 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 44 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It is common for the gearchange to be stiff , but after 3000 miles I would have expected the ‘ newness ’ to have bedded in . |
| 47 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 48 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 49 | Mrs Kerly was n't at all what Maggie would have expected . |
| 50 | He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ one would have expected the ransom to have been paid . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I would have expected more ; Particularly on the shift , which would have been next to the wound . ’ |
| 53 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 54 | This volume provides an admirably full and even coverage of 13 years of these and many other projects , but it scarcely attempts the more critical profile one might have expected from Rizzoli . |
| 55 | To birdie with a long par-4 coming up was a great bonus when he might have expected to bogey . |
| 56 | But these are deviations and dissents rather than the mainstream that Dicey would have expected . |
| 57 | But then , what could I have expected ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 60 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |