Example sentences of "he [vb past] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 2 | I gathered from Doone 's face that it was n't the type of answer he 'd expected , but he pulled out a notebook and wrote down the reply as given , checking that he 'd got it right . |
| 3 | The Earl of Argyll , Archibald Campbell , introduced him to many of the Scottish nobles , and he found some of them less objectionable than he 'd expected . |
| 4 | Some time passed before Anwar noticed that his much-anticipated son-in-law was n't the rippling physical specimen he 'd expected . |
| 5 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 6 | He 'd expected it and just shrugged his shoulders and sat down on the stool . |
| 7 | Adam Carver had spent longer than he 'd expected with Uno . |
| 8 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 9 | He opened a few drawers in the dresser until he saw what he 'd expected to find — half a dozen packets of tights . |
| 10 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 11 | In truth , he 'd expected it would . |
| 12 | It seemed that he 'd expected the animal 's response to be more intense on the second day , but it actually scored lower on his scale . |
| 13 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 14 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |
| 15 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 16 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 17 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 18 | As he 'd expected , there were four young men dressed as Dave Tanner , but only one of them was interested in who might be coming in . |
| 19 | Now if Kemp had been held up , for some reason , for even longer than he 'd expected … for considerably longer than he 'd expected … |
| 20 | Now if Kemp had been held up , for some reason , for even longer than he 'd expected … for considerably longer than he 'd expected … |
| 21 | Her performance was about what he 'd expected but they brushed through without anything too awful happening . |
| 22 | They were luckier than many middle-aged people in having a pension from his firm , even though it had arrived a bit earlier than he 'd expected or wanted , along with a small amount of redundancy money . |
| 23 | It said he 'd expected this . |
| 24 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 25 | He seemed to expect this , and merely abused the audience back , spitting at them , skidding over on to his arse once , and drinking and slouching around the stage as if he were in his living room . |
| 26 | I felt I had to do something , he seemed to expect me to do something " . |
| 27 | He seemed to expect if not especial thanks , at least some expression of wonder . |
| 28 | He began to expect to own a house ; he more and more rarely worked with his hands ; as he earned more , he found the paying of tax increasingly disagreeable . |
| 29 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 30 | But , if that was what he had to expect from the Russian , then that is what he would beware of . |