Example sentences of "expect his [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect his wife 's just had a baby . |
| 2 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 3 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 4 | Well I expect his family dispose of it nicely for him . |
| 5 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 6 | Having fully expected his son to return without making any additional stops , Leopold was again let down . |
| 7 | Even the king , who , unlike his district governor , had practised these precepts himself , had not expected his subjects to do so too , though he hoped they would strive towards the ideal . |
| 8 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 9 | The young working-class man in industrial employment could expect his income to reach its peak in early manhood and stay constant thereafter , barring disasters such as unemployment . |
| 10 | Wood indeed advocates three bedrooms , but it is clear from the majority of his designs that he does not expect his labourers to achieve them . |
| 11 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 12 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 13 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 14 | After that they would expect His Majesty to grant a dissolution . |
| 15 | At least Mandru did not expect his Ixmaritians to perform naked , as was the traditional custom . |
| 16 | Tony does n't expect his navvy to turn many heads , but if it makes just one or two commuters appreciate the courage and dedication of the men who made the Chiltern Line , the effort was worth it . |
| 17 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 18 | In calling his recent book about his own early life by the name of The Facts , Philip Roth is issuing a challenge — expecting his readers to know that there are no bare facts , and obliging them to think hard about what happens in the recounting of the facts of a life . |
| 19 | Victory may have been his Down Under if this Honda had n't cooked its clutch , but he 's been expecting his Michelins to have the upper hand in hot weather . |
| 20 | For all I know , there may be a kernel of truth in what he says , but anyone expecting his followers to wear turquoise shell suits can count me out , even if his prophesy that New Zealand is about to disappear under water has a certain charm . |
| 21 | Luckily for Chris his A Level assessor will come TO the school to look at his work , rather than expecting his project to arrive in the post . |
| 22 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 23 | He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter . |
| 24 | He now had the neatly trimmed beard which his father expected his sons to adopt as they grew to manhood . |
| 25 | In an incredibly education conscious Japan , his father , an academic , expected his sons to become academics ; and they all did . |
| 26 | He regularly came home drunk and expected his wife to do everything he told her . |
| 27 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn . |
| 30 | The master expected his servant to increase his own personal wealth , a situation that is exactly analogous with the generally accepted microeconomic concept that management should seek to maximize the wealth of their ordinary ( equity ) shareholders . |