Example sentences of "he expect to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noverre 's second category comprised those dancers whom he expected to be technical perfectionists . |
| 2 | His stance was apologetic , almost cringing as if he expected to be dealt a blow . |
| 3 | He expected to be sacked . |
| 4 | He expected to be offered wages that would have been paid to any other miner ; on receipt of them , he would undertake tasks with great speed and strength . |
| 5 | Nor did he introduce himself to Ellen or Thessy , but instead looked warily up into the rigging as though he expected to be ambushed from the foremast 's crosstrees . |
| 6 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 7 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 8 | He expected to be exhausted later in an investigation when he would be working a sixteen-hour day , but this early heaviness , the feeling that he was already spent in mind and body was new to him . |
| 9 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 10 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 11 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 12 | He expected to be killed . |
| 13 | Did your husband , on his return to this country , where he expected to be reunited with his wife and family , like the houseboat Grace very much ? " |
| 14 | He acted as though he was very important , as though he expected to be treated differently from — better than — anyone else . |
| 15 | Apparently , Darwin , calling at the Society on what he expected to be a routine visit , was not equipped with paper . |
| 16 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 17 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 18 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 19 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 20 | There seems no likelihood of a settlement without the full apology Branson has always demanded and on January 11 he will be in court to savour what he expects to be the greatest victory against his rival . |
| 21 | Maybe he expects to be house hunting . |
| 22 | His walk began at Passo Della Cisa , north of La Spezia , and he expects to be walking for six weeks or more . |
| 23 | He was obviously drunk or drugged when he wrote it , but it indicates that he expects to be dead by the time i read it . |
| 24 | Although a verbal apology would probably fit the bill , the offender may feel constrained to act the fool he expects to be accused of being . |
| 25 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food how many miles of hedgerow he expects to be planted in the United Kingdom over each of the next three years . |
| 26 | Asked during a news conference with foreign reporters late on Wednesday if he expects to be president in 1998 , he said : ‘ I hope it will not be necessary . |