Sentence examples for had just expected from inspiring English sources

Perhaps they had just expected the home side to sit back and take a battering.

"Originally we were looking for a place to hear some hip-hop," said Mr. Reyes, who said that the group had just been expecting to dance, but that they would happily join in to throw caloric caution to the wind.

In 1520, for example, he sent a whole set of prints to Raphael's studio in Rome (he had hoped to impress Raphael himself, but the master had just died), and expected prints of Raphael's work in return.

With the chaos I had just seen, I expected the stairwell to be clamoring with frantic people.

I wrestled with what people would think; how any man could support a woman he had just met and expect an egalitarian relationship; whether I could compromise my independence without losing myself.

The idea of retirement, invented in Germany in the 19th century, is a relatively new one compared to how long old people have just been expected to break their backs in the fields until they drop.

On the tort side, Mr. Cardozo said that the city had just begun what he expected to be an exhaustive study of tort claims against the city.

It felt like I was in a hospital bed, immobile and numb, and someone I loved but did not expect had just come to visit.

But as Mr. Posen sees it, the battle has just begun — expect to hear more from him in the future.

Jean-Guillaume Héau said that he felt both sad and elated – that he had just experienced something he never expected to see in his whole life.

She based her paper on a movie she had just seen, even though I expected originality in this assignment.