Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to lie awake for hours . |
| 2 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 3 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 4 | We expect to spend some of this on sponsoring students to attend the annual CPRW Youth Environment Conference in November — a very popular and rewarding part of CPRW 's programme . |
| 5 | ‘ We expect to recover 90 to 95 per cent of the trees . |
| 6 | They expect to sell 800,000 of their £70 Game Boys in Britain alone this year . |
| 7 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 8 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 9 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |
| 10 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993–94 , with zero net profit . |