Example sentences of "he expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it .
2 He said he expected a substantial part of that money to be used as a ‘ starter ’ sum for Darlington schools St Augustines and St Bedes .
3 He expected a celebratory meal on re-entry into this life , and a litre of his own wine from the most recent good vintage .
4 When told it could , Postelnicu made it clear that he expected a regular supply of Scotch to be discreetly deposited there .
5 Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million .
6 Prost said he expected a tough race but was satisfied with the performance of his car .
7 Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million .
8 On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million .
9 He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m .
10 As England 's most capped cricketer , he expected an early telephone call once the team was finalised on Friday .
11 Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ?
12 He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US .
13 He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked .
14 Ake Lundqvist , an Ericsson senior vice-president , told Reuters that he expects the greatest growth to be in Japan with an additional 1m units sold .
15 To ask the Secretary of State for Energy at current trends , how much plutonium he expects the thermal oxide reprocessing plant to have produced by the year 2000 .
16 He expects the experimental error to fall to 1 per cent .
17 The spectator is not interested in the rise and fall of fortunes ; he expects the transient image of certain passions .
18 Will he also tell us when he expects the nuclear levy , which is still rising , to start to fall in the light of this morning 's results from Nuclear Electric ?
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