Example sentences of "he expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected Willie to ask if there had been any post but there was no response . |
| 2 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 3 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |
| 4 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 5 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 6 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |
| 9 | He also told reporters he expected Syria , Jordan and Lebanon — the Arab countries talking peace with Israel in Washington — to sign other agreements with the Jewish state simultaneously within days . |
| 10 | He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney . |
| 11 | However , with the outbreaks of that disease in cattle beginning to plateau , Keith Meldrum , the Ministry of Agriculture 's chief veterinarian , has gone on record as saying he expects EC countries to start lifting the ban towards the end of the year . |
| 12 | However , Tory leader Coun Lawrie Wild has said he expects Coun Woodhead to do the ‘ honourable thing ’ . |
| 13 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 14 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 15 | Makoto Naruke , president of Microsoft Corp 's Japanese subsidiary , told Reuter that he believes overall Japanese personal computer sales will increase 30% this year — and on the back of this , he expects Microsoft 's sales in Japan — just $108m in the year to June 31 , 1992 — to rise to $136m in the year that ends this June . |
| 16 | He expects Microsoft 's consumer division , into which all its information activities are lumped , to be the firm 's biggest within five years . |
| 17 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 18 | But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 . |