I just would have expected to hear back from him by now.

He had never expected to hear these words from a woman.

The voice was a friend's and the last she might have expected to hear.

Of all people, his was the last voice she'd expected to hear.

The answer was not the one they expected to hear.

He never really expected to hear back from either of them.

It was the last thing I'd expected to hear him say.

It was the last thing she had expected to hear.

It was not at all the kind of story they had expected to hear.

It was exactly what the President had expected to hear.