Sentence examples for had expected to meet from inspiring English sources

Santana was different from the person Luff had expected to meet.

I had expected to meet someone bearing the visible strain of state oppression, but Woeser seemed unbowed.

Insurgents captured a military base of the vaunted Khamis Brigade, where they had expected to meet fierce resistance, then sped toward Tripoli.

They had expected to meet for the first time at the dance, but when Miss Sisti's friend noticed Dr. McInnes at a basketball game a few days before, she pointed him out.

She had just arrived from New York, and while they both had expected to meet only for coffee, Ms. Mendik was hungry and not shy about prolonging the meeting into lunch.

After six months of inconclusive fighting, the assault on the capital unfolded at a breakneck pace, with insurgents capturing a base of the vaunted Khamis Brigade, where they had expected to meet resistance, then speeding toward Tripoli and through several neighborhoods of the capital effectively unopposed.

There was the now infamous inevitability argument, a message that ramped expectations to heights that Clinton could never have expected to meet.

Hull were anxious to make the right response after their home defeat by Leeds the previous weekend, but they could not have expected to meet such limp opposition.

More than a century ago, Robert Browning may well have expected to meet his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the hereafter, as he wrote in his great death-defying poem "Prospice", one of the first works I ever learnt by heart.

I had expected to be met with something like a cute yellow submarine but this remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is far from that.

Many men had expected to be met and escorted by British troops and did not relish the possibility of having to fight their way to the coast.