Example sentences of "he expects " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 2 | Though he expects lower cereal crop yields after he completes the conversion , there is a saving of £70 an acre in the cost of pesticides and herbicides . |
| 3 | He expects profits this year of £135m and has pencilled in £150m for next year . |
| 4 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 5 | He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car |
| 6 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 7 | Every year he expects to lose around 10 per cent of his lambs . |
| 8 | He expects to stay at the hotel for some years to come to oversee operations . |
| 9 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 10 | At first his manner is reserved and defensive ; there is an attitude that suggests he expects rebuke and is ready to fight . |
| 11 | It 's the only certain way to pay off an overdraft which he expects by then to have topped £1,000 . |
| 12 | Mr Major has already asked Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other EC leaders to delay any decisions , at least until the EC summit at Maastricht in early December : presumably he expects to call an election this autumn . |
| 13 | He expects Germans , Japanese and anyone else who has not sent forces to contribute to a ‘ war chest ’ . |
| 14 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 15 | He expects to come back alone . |
| 16 | His Wisdom closed transfer system ( CTS ) has gone on the market for £560 and he expects it to find a ready market amongst arable farmers and growers . |
| 17 | Prof Plant , 47 , will not say how much change he expects by the time he retires — even though , as an expert on the German philosopher Hegel , historic change on a grand scale fascinates him . |
| 18 | After Maastricht , he expects to raise cohesion funds , to be spent in Europe 's remote corners and bring us all into one happy family . |
| 19 | Prof Plant , 47 , will not say how much change he expects by the time he retires — even though , as an expert on the German philosopher Hegel , historic change on a grand scale fascinates him . |
| 20 | He expects to have organic chickens for £1.25 per lb and pork for £1.20 a lb . |
| 21 | He expects the same of those around him . |
| 22 | He expects the same of those around him . |
| 23 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 24 | Dr. Briant has told us how his project is operating , and what he expects to discover from it . |
| 25 | He expects the experimental error to fall to 1 per cent . |
| 26 | An aide to representative Don Fuqua , a leading sponsor of the bill , said he expects the more conservative Senate to offer a $250 to $300 million programme . |
| 27 | He expects to raise more money from a small corporations which will pay for 12 months research and development work at the abandoned well . |
| 28 | Turnover in 1990 was Dm4.5 million , and he expects much more this year . |
| 29 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 30 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |