Example sentences of "have expected a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I 'd expected a stunt-man who pulled off hair-raising feats for kicks . |
| 2 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 3 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 4 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 6 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 7 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 8 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 9 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 10 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 11 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 12 | He could have expected a weekly salary approaching £10,000 , plus all the other expensive trimmings , if he had become Britain 's most expensive ever midfield player . |
| 13 | Had Norman Lamont been making his speech to the Commons 100 years ago , he would have worn a hat and commentators would have expected a rabbit to have been produced from it . |
| 14 | One might have expected a sadistic Nightmare On Elm Street lyric to emerge from such interests , but instead he wrote the wonderfully moving ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ and later made a point of condemning Myra Hindley . |
| 15 | They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous . |
| 16 | She would never have expected a cheer . |
| 17 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 18 | Having spent £25,775 on computerisation , the doctors might reasonably have expected a 50 per cent . |
| 19 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 20 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 21 | She should have known — should have expected a scorpion to use subtle tactics . |
| 22 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 23 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 24 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 25 | Having expected a casual Italian place , Belinda was a little perturbed to realise that this was L'Epoque , Brisbane 's newest and most talked-about French restaurant , which must surely have required a booking in advance . |
| 26 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 27 | No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 . |
| 28 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test . |
| 29 | Having expected a leisurely discussion , Luce was surprised by the brevity of this first meeting . |
| 30 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |