Examples of 'could have expected' in a sentence
Meaning of "could have expected"
This phrase is used to express surprise or disbelief when the actual outcome or result of a situation is contrary to what one would have anticipated or predicted. It suggests that the outcome was not foreseeable or expected based on the circumstances or available information
How to use "could have expected" in a sentence
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could have expected
Could have expected to see you here.
But no one could have expected this.
This is beyond anything anyone could have expected.
Nobody could have expected anything else.
More favourably than we could have expected.
I never could have expected any of this.
Something that we never could have expected.
Rousseau could have expected a warm welcome.
Much better than anyone could have expected.
So you could have expected to bring it home.
Much more than anyone could have expected.
I could have expected anything but this.
I do not know how i ever could have expected.
No one could have expected what happened next.
The ratings nigh of what we could have expected.
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Nobody could have expected this.
You did more than anyone could have expected.
You could have expected it if you.
It all ended in a way no one could have expected.
No one could have expected someone would murder.
It was a sudden death and nobody could have expected it.
No one could have expected that they would be.
They did way better than anyone could have expected.
No one could have expected the jury to sympathize.
Something happens that you never could have expected.
No candidate could have expected this type of question.
The first kind of evidence is the best we could have expected.
No one could have expected bread from heaven.
The innovation worked better than anyone could have expected.
Nobody could have expected you to turn that down.
I think that this is much more than anyone could have expected.
I could have expected that kind of sensitivity on your part.
No rational person could have expected any other result.
I could have expected betrayal from anyone but you.
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
What nobody could have expected was a blight on humanity itself.
Destiny guides our fortunes more favourably than we could have expected.
One could have expected a stronger representation of consumer organisations.
I find it difficult to see what else people could have expected from her.
But no one could have expected just how soon.
These extremists have access to resources that go beyond anything we could have expected.
She could have expected two or even three challenges.
This happened more rapidly and dramatically than even we could have expected.
They could have expected a great reward for doing so too.
Ike contemptuously asks how she could have expected anything different from him.
I could have expected it.
Loss of wages that your family could have expected to receive from the deceased.
He could have expected to hold his seat for a quarter of a century or more.
That is substantially more than the motorcycle lobby could have expected at the outset.
Nobody could have expected the side swipe that occurred.
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These documents have been in my family for centuries
Have this done by the customer service only
He could not have chosen a worse time
