Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
| 4 | After the breakdown of talks in London he said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |
| 5 | He said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |