In claiming the attention of L for my utterance U, I'm implicitly vouching for the truth of whatever I can expect L to come up with if he processes U the way he'd process any promising stimulus and continues to do so until it yields a result that adequately repays his investment of effort to date.
Whatever I was expecting from the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, it wasn't this.
Faced now at dinner with a drunken, abusive Thurber — and his somewhat less drunk but equally abusive wife — I was totally thrown; whatever I had expected, it wasn't King Lear in the Italian Pavilion spouting invective about a publication and an editor I so admired.
Last month, Bill Clinton told Bloomberg TV that, "I don't know what Hillary's going to do, but whatever it is, I expect to support it".
I expect whatever emerges from the wreckage of Ukip will be more potent than before.
He rarely talks to reporters, and when briefly stopped at last fall's Vatican conference of bishops from around the world and asked what he expected from the meetings, he said only, "I expect whatever will be".
I do not know what I expected, but whatever I imagined the author of those glittering, dangerous stories to have been, I was not expecting the genial gentleman I met.
On the day that Theo was born, all bloody with ears like a monkey, and the nurse let me hold him, whatever it was I expected to feel — a surge of love, of wonderment — stalled completely.
"I didn't know what to expect, but whatever I had in my mind, this bar exceeded my expectations," said 31-year-old Jimmy, who came dressed as Evil Morty.
