Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wholesalers reported an increase in sales compared with last year , reversing the previous trend , and they also expect strong growth in sales in February . |
| 3 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought the horses I was riding had each way chances but I never expected four winners . |
| 5 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |