Example sentences of "expect his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the sad thing is , it 's a habit very hard to break because he 's always so damned competent — and we all in our various ways expect his uncomplaining support . |
| 2 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 3 | A noble individual , such as Nithard himself , could reasonably expect his royal lord to look after his interests and reward faithful service with beneficia ( literally " good deeds " ) , meaning grants of lands or of honores , " offices " which carried lands with them : hence the linguistic distinction between honor and beneficium became blurred . |
| 4 | In his letter to Kevin , now expecting his fifth child , Longford , 86 , asks if he needs any consol-ing . |
| 5 | They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl . |
| 6 | He fiddled with a piece of card he was carrying and glowered at the exit to the Customs hall as if he was expecting his worst enemy to come through the door . |
| 7 | Back in the stress where I live , I imparted the info to my trusty co-star and pianist , Denis King , expecting his habitual response to such suggestions : ‘ Bollocks ! ’ |
| 8 | Even Nietzsche expected his future Supermen to form a community . |
| 9 | Although Joffre , who seems at this time not to have been in touch with military reality , even now expected his left wing to advance and halt the invasion . |
| 10 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 11 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 12 | Gazza , now with Lazio of Rome after his £5.5 million transfer from Tottenham , expects his first match to be against Spurs on September 23 . |
| 13 | Rob Pinchbeck expects his new spell as manager of Magnus to last longer than his previous stint in the job . |
| 14 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |
| 15 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |