Example sentences of "have expected [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that after the stinginess of Armadale he had gone to the house of this ‘ hearty welcome ’ , and had been pleased with ‘ a numerous and cheerful company ’ — why did Boswell prove less forthcoming than one might have expected about the Mackinnons ? |
| 3 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 4 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 5 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 6 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 7 | Thus we find a much more uniform field-pattern , uniform as regards both size and shape , than we might have expected in the grazing counties of central England . |