Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 2 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 3 | I expect your little Anna is the same ! |
| 4 | ‘ I expect our toughest game of the season against them . ’ |
| 5 | I expect our little miss found it repugnant , the first dirty old man she was put to . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 8 | Before reading further , think about the last few chapters and decide what you expect their empirical studies have found . |
| 9 | The lesson our Party draws is important that all of us , individuals and corporations alike , have a responsibility to reflect the values we expect our fellow citizens to exhibit . |
| 10 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 11 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 12 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Novell Inc says it expects its new NetWare 4.0 to represent 20% of total revenues in the first 12 months of shipment , matching previous releases : some analysts had questioned how quickly NetWare 4.0 will take off because of its complexity . |
| 15 | 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 . |