Example sentences of "he expect his [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
2 | He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn . |
3 | He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter . |
4 | He expected his father to rise and say something about that being no way to speak to one 's wife or not in front of the child , he was capable of that . |
5 | But who Actually he was n't given what he wanted , which I believe was an armed conflict between law enforcement and his group in which he expected to die , in which he expected his membership to die . |
6 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
7 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
8 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |