Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
2 | I expect his spies will tell him , though . ’ |
3 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
4 | He expected his troops would take two more towns and said his fighters now controlled the whole of Highway 69 , along the Thai frontier , north of Sisophon . |
5 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
6 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |