When I arrived in Katine, a year after the project began, I expected to see modest, but significant improvements to people's lives.
When my high school junior year began, I expected to have another successful season.
Before I get to my re-assessments of this fall's new shows, I should point out that before the season began, I expected a lot of my favorite newcomers to crash and burn.
When her work in the Senate actually begins, I expect that over a rather short period of time any mumbling over the hoopla surrounding her -- along with false stereotypes some senators may hold -- will fade, subsumed into the Senate's agenda and the daily business of colleagues.
In the very beginning, I expected we might have a hard time.
In the beginning, I expected to find that police didn't take reports, and that was true: Of those who'd tried to report being the victim or witness to a crime, police had taken reports from only 44percentt.
In the beginning I expected it to be easy, because when you go to the antenatal classes and you watch these videos and you think 'oh yeah it comes naturally', it looks so easy, but then when comes to the real baby, it's not like that, you have to work at it (Mother, age 29, first baby) It's a complete shock, you know, and your emotions are all over the place.
The post began: "I never expected this level of attention.
"When you began I was expecting cold meat with that salsa, but by that second turn you were giving me hot mince... spicy cheese... other things that might go with Doritos".
And it seems likely that the blockchain, and Raft, and Spanner, and that great granddaddy of distributed peer-to-peer data called BitTorrent, are only the beginning; I expect more and more distributed-computing breakthroughs of comparable magnitude over the next decade, as the world's searchlight minds turn to the forthcoming Internet Of Things.
His previous work has received considerable critical praise and two fairly recent Booker long-listings, so I began it expecting good things.
