Sentence examples for had never anticipated that from inspiring English sources

Although the Coast Guard had trained for the possibility of cleaning up a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done, the commander heading the federal response to the spill said Monday.

I had never anticipated that my budget would increase so much.

"I would have never anticipated that it would have been this systemic," Mr. Balash said.

When we launched Gawker in 2002, I would have never anticipated that it would grow into a large media company.

When my husband, pastor Saeed Abedini — a U.S. citizen — was put in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran on Sept. 26, 2012, because of his Christian faith, I could have never anticipated that the journey would take so long or that it would be so painful.

We receive so many supporting letters we have never anticipated that," said Lénárd.

He would have never anticipated that thirty years later, the damage caused by smoking would be irreversible.

One of the side-effects of getting older I had never anticipated is that significant anniversaries now come around with ever greater frequency, making almost every year a landmark in some way or other.

What I had never anticipated was that unexpected and frighteningly sudden medical circumstances -- terrible, life-threatening digestive issues -- would freeze my life in its tracks when I 18.

Raja Halder, who has always imagined that he only followed caste rules out of social politeness, must eat food for the first time in his life that has been prepared by unknown hands and override a wave of disgust that he had never anticipated.

We could see that people engaged with it in playful ways that we had never anticipated, and this was exactly what we had hoped for.