Sentence examples for I hardly expected from inspiring English sources

"I hardly expected the book itself to be successful".

I'd seen him about the town, once when he was exotically got up in tartan trews and a tam o'shanter as the chief of the highland games, but I hardly expected him to remember our single brief encounter 30 years earlier.

"On a particularly hot Saturday matinee," wrote Rattigan, "and sitting alone, having left the Test match at a particularly exciting moment, I hardly expected to find myself, at both intervals of your play, with tears staining my raddled and reactionary old cheeks".

By the time I arrived in Iraq in 2009, I hardly expected to be welcomed as a liberator or greeted -- as the officials who launched the invasion of that country expected back in 2003 -- with a parade and flowers.

Which brings me to the fact that I hardly expected to be sitting in a giant theater in the Middle East watching a film about Aboriginal heroines in war-time Vietnam and yet The Sapphires, at the Dubai International Film Festival, worked in that environment so well, and in every way.

"The truth is we have probably saved the Broadwater investors a ton of money, although I hardly expect them to thank us," he said.

I hardly expect to have convinced any of those reading who are of the persuasion that the fossil record does not cover such transitions.

Their Life Orientation Test, or LOT, measures how a person responds to a set of statements that range from "I hardly expect things to go my way" to "In uncertain times, I usually expect the best".

As a result, I hardly expect such visuals to shift many views, particularly given that responses to the science pointing to substantial, enduring greenhouse warming are shaped far more by divergent values, and feelings of risk, than the data.

The loss of Brian Cushing for the season deprives this team of a defensive leader, and though I hardly expect that to derail them altogether, something tells me they may be in for a wobble.

I hardly expect to be dry again until the storm is over".