Example sentences of "he [be] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychogenic reactions on food testing ( see p 148 ) can occur just as easily in children as in adults , and if knows he is expected to go wild when he tries milk he may well oblige . |
| 2 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 3 | They divorced after 20 years of marriage and he is expected to marry 37-year-old heiress Charlotte Morrison , Britain 's second richest woman . |
| 4 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 5 | Instead , he is expected to surrender one-third of the Championship and opt for some easy money . |
| 6 | In 1982 he had helped to found the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front ( UDF ) [ see also p. 33895 ] , and he was expected to remain active in politics . |
| 7 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 8 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 9 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 10 | He was expected to employ six able well-experienced and sufficient miners for nine months in each year , and as soon as " Tenn Tunns " be raised , to employ ten able well-experienced workmen to dress the ore . |
| 11 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
| 12 | He was expected to keep good order ; that is to say , to see that offenders were punished , that evil-doers went in fear of him , that disputes over land were settled in an orderly manner ; and personally to supervise his royal court . |