Example sentences of "he [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nicholson wondered , if the snow came , what he could expect this time . |
2 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |
3 | We now have a situation where , in the unskilled occupations , an employer will take on a woman in preference to a man — since he would expect higher wages . |
4 | He would expect older children to master basic harmony — ‘ grammar and syntax , we can not communicate sensibly without . |
5 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
6 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
7 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |