Sentence examples for expected someone more from inspiring English sources

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I would have expected someone more tucked-in — Jason Sudeikis maybe, or Keith Powell, though definitely not Alec Baldwin — but maybe Mr. Adsit, too, was in search of some guiding principles.

I expected someone more distant.

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"I was expecting someone more interested in leveraging and marketing," he said in a recent telephone interview.

My ID card and name would surprise some who expected someone different, or more accurately one that fit their preconceptions based on blonde and blue eyes.

In fact, I expected someone different, darker perhaps, more angry.

First, she is warm and inviting, when her smoky, melancholy records had led me to expect someone much more remote.

A real lover might make demands and expect someone who is more than a brutal cog in a corporation of unfettered allegiance.

Always the most uncomfortable of rock stars – it is hard to think of anyone who made heavier weather of being a vastly successful musician than Waters did once Pink Floyd went stratospheric in the 1970s – he is also, legend has it, far more prickly and defensive than you might expect someone who's sold more than 250m albums to be.

So when they eventually leave, you're looking around and you're expecting someone to be paying slightly more attention to you.

Given all this, one would expect someone like Bloomberg to be much more elitist and unforgiving of weakness than Romney, but that's where reality diverges from expectation.

"Expecting someone?" Douglas asked.

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