Sentence examples for expecting someone more from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

"Expecting someone?" Douglas asked.

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.

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.

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

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.

Expect someone to try and kick you.

Here was someone more than just the ascetic creature I had expected.