Example sentences of "expect [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
2 | They go to all that trouble to feed strangers and then expect their own family to do without . |
3 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
4 | I suggest she opened the window for someone else , and did n't expect her own fingerprints to be taken . |
5 | As existing insurance institutions might not be keen to underwrite such a scheme without expecting their own profit from it , we think that the credit institutions themselves should explore the possibility of joining together to back a mutual non-profit credit insurance fund . |
6 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
7 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |