Sentence examples for when you expected from inspiring English sources

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Instruments didn't enter or exit or stop or start when you expected them to.

It was like receiving a bad report card when you expected straight A's.

"The days when you expected distressed debt investors to come in are gone: they are still waiting or they have their own issues".

Instead of retreating into cautiousness, Denver came back swinging, Manning continuing to throw the ball on downs when you expected his team to run the ball and try to chew up the clock.

It's tough to reach an age when you expected to be in a settled relationship and find yourself not – right now I'm recalling the crying I did on the eve of my 30th birthday because I knew that my then-boyfriend would not be my forever-boyfriend – but it's tougher, and I think you know it is, to be settled in the wrong relationship.

He adds a short postscript to the letter: "Don't you know the disappointment when you expected joy from a piece of music and get only pleasure: Like finding Leah when you thought you'd married Rachel!" Joy, he would write in his memoir, later, "must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure.

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When you expect too much and your expectations aren't met, you feel disappointed.

Disaster hurts less when you expect it".

When you expect nothing is when you find something.

"You set a rhythm of when you expect the lights to change.

Just when you expect him to reach for a scalpel, he lobs cotton balls.

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