Example sentences of "[pron] expect [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 2 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 3 | The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 . |
| 4 | SCO hopes the new programme will help it focus on three markets — retail , finance and government — and its expects to sell 1,500 developers kits there in its first year — between 400 — 500 of them in Europe . |
| 5 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ When you score three goals away from home you expect to take three points . |
| 7 | ‘ We expect to recover 90 to 95 per cent of the trees . |
| 8 | For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas . |
| 9 | ‘ We expect to achieve 20 mpg and possibly even 25 mpg , ’ says automotive manager Peter Harris . |
| 10 | They expect to sell 800,000 of their £70 Game Boys in Britain alone this year . |
| 11 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 12 | Kinnear , who said he expected to make one more signing this week-end , looked forward to Jones the manager with a wry smile . |
| 13 | Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month . |
| 14 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 15 | It expects to invite 50–75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35–50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese . |
| 16 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 17 | Clyde 's oil and gas reserves rose from the equivalent of 122.8 million to 167.9 million barrels last year and it expects to have 90 per cent of them in production by the end of 1994 , when output should average 40,000 bpd . |
| 18 | It expects to attract 2,000 attendees . |