Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect our toughest game of the season against them . ’ |
| 3 | I expect our little miss found it repugnant , the first dirty old man she was put to . |
| 4 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 5 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 6 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |