Sentence examples for had really expected from inspiring English sources

No one had really expected Mr. Gorbachev to come around so soon.

Struggling so hard to find even non-graduate work was not something I had really expected.

No ground troops left Germany until the new government had been installed in Kabul and the U.N. peacekeeping force established, and no one had really expected that they would.

"We had really expected that by late November, the work would be done and people would be flocking over the busy Christmas season to see our new president-elect," said Janine Scarpello, the general manager of Madame Tussaud's New York.

Both parties, after all, choose candidates for elector on the basis of party service and loyalty, and no one had really expected an act of political self-immolation today.

No one had really expected him to sweep the board again, and he still had six races left to swim, but suddenly it was possible to imagine that he might not earn even the three medals required to surpass the Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina as the most decorated of all Olympians.

I had really not expected this to be the case.

I reminded myself that I hadn't really expected to, and I had his precious voice on tape.

A few weeks in, I realized the app had a side effect I hadn't really expected: I was somehow becoming more adventurous.

I hadn't really expected heart damage, though I was glad now that she had overruled me and chosen our E.R.

I hadn't really expected that they would.