Example sentences of "he [be] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 2 | What had he been expected to do ? |
| 3 | ‘ He genuinely had no idea whatsoever as to who I was , and nor should he be expected to know or care about me . |
| 4 | How can he be expected to run the country when half his time is spent waiting for people who never turn up ? |
| 5 | How could he be expected to love anyone like that ? |
| 6 | While if a user is really looking for a system to support management decisions , how can he be expected to know in advance all the decisions which he will have to take ? |
| 7 | His eyes darted from door to lift , watchful and alert , as though he were expecting somebody . |
| 8 | He is expecting the call . ’ |
| 9 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 10 | He is expecting City to come back with a bigger offer . |
| 11 | Nineteen different events from junior singles to veterans doubles will make this tournament one of the biggest of its kind and Connor says he is expecting an entry of around the 350 mark . |
| 12 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 13 | He is expected to announce the construction of an airport costing £640m , a project that will be hailed as evidence of Britain 's confidence in Hong Kong 's post-1997 future . |
| 14 | But he is expected to move soon to predominantly Muslim West Beirut . |
| 15 | He is expected to become Colchester 's manager when Jock Wallace retires next year . |
| 16 | He is expected to play again in January , specialists having approved his return to training , but is unwilling to turn out too soon , as he did against Steaua after surgery , for fear of jeopardising his chances of playing in the World Cup . |
| 17 | The latter started favourite for last year 's Champion but proved no match for Beech Road , though he is expected to become a stronger horse this season . |
| 18 | He is expected to transfer by tomorrow . |
| 19 | He is expected to announce a March poll soon , but the elections could be delayed until June . |
| 20 | He is expected to hasten Peru 's rapprochement with the IMF , even as Mr Fujimori , the politician , hints at new measures to ‘ avoid recession ’ . |
| 21 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 22 | He is expected to reveal the truth of whether Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , executed in 1953 for wartime espionage , had in fact helped obtain plans for the American atom bomb for the Soviets . |
| 23 | Although it is not known when he will be able to return to his £350,000-a-year job , he is expected to lead a normal life within three months . |
| 24 | He is expected to spend up to 10 days in a £215-a-night suite which includes a single room equipped with private bath , shower , toilet , telephone and colour television . |
| 25 | He is expected to reveal his plans today . |
| 26 | He is expected to resign . |
| 27 | He is expected to travel to Sarajevo today . |
| 28 | In other words there is a publicly accepted code of conduct which he is expected to perform . |
| 29 | ‘ He is expected tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | Psychogenic reactions on food testing ( see p 148 ) can occur just as easily in children as in adults , and if knows he is expected to go wild when he tries milk he may well oblige . |