Example sentences of "he expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 2 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
| 3 | Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect . |
| 4 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 5 | It was not the kind of approach to the situation that the survey briefing had led him to expect , and Rostov realised that he was going to have to adjust his notions about standards of behaviour . |
| 6 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 7 | The room was comfortable , though scarcely as ‘ princely ’ as the guidebook had led him to expect . |
| 8 | ‘ Telling him to expect word from this — what 's your name , girl ? ’ |
| 9 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 10 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
| 11 | It 's not fair for him to expect you to stay — especially now Garvey 's made criminals of us all . |
| 12 | He expected a few dozen people . |
| 13 | Noverre 's second category comprised those dancers whom he expected to be technical perfectionists . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 16 | Mr Carey , 46 , a distinguished BBC journalist for 23 years , said he expected to liaise constantly with broadcasters on what footage they required . |
| 17 | Rudolf Seiters , the head of the Bonn Chancellery , announcing the move last night , said he expected that 11,000 East Germans currently in Prague would join the special trains heading west . |
| 18 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 19 | Simon Foster , director of the SMMT , said he expected sales in the final quarter of the year to be below those in the last three months of 1988 . |
| 20 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 21 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 22 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 23 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 24 | He expected to die , but the expectation was always of something remote , deferred . |
| 25 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 26 | In what is a highly fluid situation , a senior opposition source said that he expected Forum ministers to be in office by the weekend . |
| 27 | He expected talks last night between Forum and the small non-Communist parties to see what were the possibilities . |
| 28 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 29 | The 119-page report is the result of a 10-month review led by the Press Council 's chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper , who after meeting the full council yesterday said he expected it to take until next summer to reach final agreement on the recommendations . |
| 30 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |