Example sentences of "he expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected a few dozen people . |
| 2 | Noverre 's second category comprised those dancers whom he expected to be technical perfectionists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 5 | Mr Carey , 46 , a distinguished BBC journalist for 23 years , said he expected to liaise constantly with broadcasters on what footage they required . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 13 | He expected to die , but the expectation was always of something remote , deferred . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In what is a highly fluid situation , a senior opposition source said that he expected Forum ministers to be in office by the weekend . |
| 16 | He expected talks last night between Forum and the small non-Communist parties to see what were the possibilities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
| 20 | He always expected them to leave : he expected everyone to leave . |
| 21 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 22 | The boy was still looking round him as if he expected someone to come . |
| 23 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |
| 24 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 25 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 26 | Wolfgang Roller , chairman of Dresdner Bank , said yesterday he expected long-term rates to fall by nearly two points and inflation to average 4 p.c. as the German economy recovers . |
| 27 | Richardson admitted he expected the booing . |
| 28 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 29 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 30 | Prof McVie said that he expected drugs to counter rogue genes could be available within seven years . |