Example sentences of "[pron] expect he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 2 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 3 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 4 | I expected him to rise . |
| 5 | I saw the lie and line , and knowing what he 'd done already , I expected him to chip in . |
| 6 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’ |
| 8 | I suppose I expected him to pounce or something . |
| 9 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 10 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
| 11 | I expected him to be with me , his stentorian ubiety transmogrifying the spacious library into somewhere shabby and small . |
| 12 | I expected him to continue , but he knelt and pushed the rusty metal through the brightly coloured rope that bound the fortune-teller 's waist . |
| 13 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 14 | the tube station cos I expected him to spring out |
| 15 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 16 | I expect him to improve another 30 per cent , ’ said Boutin . |
| 17 | I can not say precisely when I expect him to return , though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’ |
| 18 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 19 | He has made an allegation , and I expect him to substantiate it . |
| 20 | I expect him so to do . |
| 21 | I expect him to score 25+ . |
| 22 | , I said , she said but I expect him to . |
| 23 | Well I expect him to pay the insurance . |
| 24 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 25 | ‘ And he 's not the most cultural man , but I expect he 'll accept all the same . ’ |
| 26 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 27 | ‘ I expect he 's gone home . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know him , but I expect he comes from somewhere round here , ’ I said . |
| 29 | I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag . |
| 30 | ‘ I expect he probably did , ’ was the reply . |