Sentence examples for at first expected from inspiring English sources

A number of writers, fewer than I had at first expected.

But the list, at first expected within a few days, has yet to materialize.

The prophetic movement at first expected an imminent transformation of the world but later evolved into sectarianism claiming a new revelation.

Although their friends at first expected a scandal, the price was not legal but emotional, as is clear from the torments Isherwood records in The Sixties.

Americans, who at first expected all Iraqis to welcome them as liberators, soon found it wasn't going to be that easy.

The war was seen by those who experienced it as being in its early stages a national war of the traditional kind, and as such it was not at first expected to assume any profoundly disturbing form.

This one-liner becomes deeper than you might at first expect.

At first expect no headline cuts in services used by the middle classes - the schools and hospitals.

She was happy to see the officers at first, expecting to be taken to a police station to formally claim asylum, their right under European law.

I confess to doubting their power at first, expecting a power tool to be a big, heavy beast of a thing.

"The children at first expect to hear the sheep go, 'bah bah,' because they only know the animal sounds from people reading them a book, so when they first hear the real thing, it's wonderful," she said.