Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect him [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well I expect him to pay the insurance . |
2 | She expected him to take the opportunity to cross-question her about the murder . |
3 | She said nothing , but hungrily returned to the carrion to take what more she could , as if she expected him to take the rest from her . |
4 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
5 | The doorman watched his visitor as if he expected him to steal the light fittings . |