Sentence examples for had reckoned on from inspiring English sources
The problem with the DS was that no one had reckoned on it being a hit, with most publishers throwing their weight behind the PSP instead.
If Rose had reckoned on her husband as a cultivated soul mate and provider, she was quickly disabused.
Even the numbers they had reckoned on would rely on overtime, something train crew were happy to do for a premium.
There are about 60,000 words written, and Fitzgerald said he had reckoned on a book of no more than 70,000.
Plucky had reckoned on leaving central London at 7.15am in the hope of arriving at the Ageas Rose Bowl – the home ground of Hampshire cricket club on the outskirts of Southampton – two hours later.
Yet they cannot have reckoned on such an ambitious supporting cast: an audience, hand-picked to ensure a range of political allegiances, of consistently high calibre.
He may not, however, have reckoned on those sentiments being publicly attributed to the defence secretary, Liam Fox, as they were this week when a letter to him from Dr Fox was leaked to the Daily Telegraph.As the SDSR reaches its conclusion, arguments about how to cut defence spending have become rancorous.
Dorothea is harassed and disappointed, having reckoned on a fruitful life, and she tells Jamie, "I don't want you to end up in the same place as me," but, where a more strident actress might have presented her as a victim, bowed by such setbacks, Bening tilts her toward a continuing hope, and gilds her with a saving streak of humor.
Yet deflation seems such a threat precisely because prices and wages are proving less "sticky" on the way down than macroeconomic textbooks had reckoned with.On standard gauges of competitiveness, such as real effective exchange rates, a number of euro-zone countries appear to have big problems.
What they had not reckoned on was the emergence of Qatar's sovereign-wealth fund as a big shareholder in Xstrata.
What the companies had not reckoned on was a fierce pushback from Governor Schwarzenegger, or the deep pockets of the state's wealthy venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, who believe there is a lot of money to be made — and jobs to be had — in a clean energy economy.
