Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] expect [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 2 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 3 | Penguin the staff reduction there does n't look particularly er high but then we were reducing staff there last year and we 've er , we 've disposed of Smithmark and the travel guides er , the warehouse and distribution system is working very well and we 've been adding distribu distribution clients there er the autumn list looks very strong indeed particularly in the U S especially and er , we 've shipped er , over two million of Stephen King 's latest book and there 's another one due in the autumn and we 're expecting to ship about two and a half million of er of , of that one . |
| 4 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 5 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those Intel-based Unix-run U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce later this spring ( UX No 420 ) . |
| 6 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 7 | He was expected to earn as much as he could ; that was the point of the " roundsman " system . |