Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't turn round : she expected Ace to follow , and a few moments later she heard running footsteps behind her . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you expect this to happen ? ’ she said , as Lucy took small hard bites . |
| 3 | And how do you expect this to change by the end of the century ? |
| 4 | We expect that to happen in the autumn . ’ |
| 5 | We expect that to continue as long as necessary . |
| 6 | We expect that to have a substantial effect . ’ |
| 7 | If he expected this to frighten Sir John he succeeded . |
| 8 | By 1994 , he expects this to grow to over US$24 billion . |
| 9 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 10 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |