They were looking for cocaine but instead found pornography that appeared to feature underage girls.
They went seeking solitude, but instead found themselves at the violent cusp of old India and new.
He and his co-founders thought they'd be nurtured by the mothership, but instead found themselves fighting for resources.
We had expected a large fortress-laboratory, but instead found only an 80ft-long creosoted garden shed.
"At mine, we began with a badly painted Churchill – then wanted lots of badly painted great men, but instead found a bad copy of Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Ginobili could have taken the shot, but instead found a wide-open Green, whose 3-pointer gave the Spurs their biggest lead of the game, 88-81.
I thought I would be eating fresh veggies by that point, but instead found myself soaked to the bone, shouting at strangers for directions in broken "Frenglish".
On two separate high-profile issues, the Senate refused to follow President Bush's lead but instead found its own politcal center.
He wanted to draw a line under three successive defeats but instead found the sequence extended to four, for the first time in a single season since 1961.
Museum officials had hoped to end the first fiscal year, which ended in June 2003, with a small surplus, but instead found a $400,000 deficit.
He had arrived at Vicarage Road expecting to watch the match from the stands but instead found himself thrust into action in Watford's biggest game of the season.
