Sentence examples for reckoned on a from inspiring English sources

But he hadn't reckoned on a stowaway cat which suddenly appeared over the wing after he had taken off.

There are about 60,000 words written, and Fitzgerald said he had reckoned on a book of no more than 70,000.

It was a stroke of genius on Puccini's part to counterpoint Scarpia's carnal desires with a full-blown Te Deum, but I doubt even he reckoned on a rolling bass-baritone that could so seductively ride the choral ensemble as Terfel did here.

I hadn't reckoned on a human actor taking the stage with the animatronic monsters of Walking With Dinosaurs, the arena spectacular which has already sold 3m tickets worldwide, but his presence gives one a sense of scale: some of his co-stars are five times his height.

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.

When Andr & Cie .became Berezovsky's strategic partner it had not reckoned on a wave of bombings and assassinations.

What she didn't reckon on was a repossession demand from an equity release company to clear the house of everything and get out within four weeks.

When Johns Hopkins University launched a business school in 2007, the smart money reckoned on an entirely new kind of MBA program.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reckons on a 5.2% drop.

Chicago's organisers paid for a study that reckons on a $22.5 billion boost for the Illinois economy (more than $1,700 per person) and 315,000 "job years".

But HSBC didn't reckon on a cyber-rebellion, begun by Wes Streeting, a Cambridge NUS vice-president opening up the Facebook group.