Examples of 'had expected' in a sentence
Meaning of "had expected"
had expected ~ used to describe a situation where someone had certain anticipation or assumption about a particular outcome but the reality turned out differently
How to use "had expected" in a sentence
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had expected
No one had expected anything like that.
Coleman nodded as if he had expected nothing else.
I had expected a little more for my travels.
Business leaders had expected much more.
We had expected concrete recommendations in that respect.
Analysts on average had expected the company to.
I had expected something gentle and lyrical.
Almost as if somebody had expected teething problems.
I had expected that this printer would be.
The results were roughly what we had expected.
I had expected a more cordial welcome here.
This was not what she had expected.
We had expected this round about now.
Those present were fewer than we had expected.
I had expected to find you in your office.
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We can say it is better than we had expected.
Tom had expected something quite different.
Way bigger than you had expected.
Tom had expected to win the race.
Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected no change.
He had expected primarily the monuments of antiquity.
That word was what they had expected.
We had expected a much greater needle fall.
The battle began as she had expected it to.
Willem had expected most of these things.
Chunghae defenses are tighter than we had expected.
None had expected this level of achievement.
The pirates are stronger than we had expected.
Clare had expected some such question.
Along than the colliers had expected.
He had expected for a tough rival to arrive.
Again more impressive than we had expected.
Markets had expected prices to remain unchanged.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that.
I had expected them to be like us but nicer.
With the accuracy which he had expected.
He had expected his first kiss to be different.
The risk was greater than he had expected.
Economists had expected only a slight increase.
From her sleep as she had expected.
I had expected a little bit more trouble.
It was lighter inside than they had expected.
Analysts had expected a less significant slowdown.
More than practically everybody had expected.
I had expected a lot that never happened.
It came sooner than many had expected.
He had expected the book to be published posthumously.
Demand appears stronger than we had expected.
They had expected to find some bodies.
He is angry about what he had expected to happen.
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