To tell you I had expected this level of physical prowess when I signed up to write this story would be a blatant lie.

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I've had 25% of the honey yield that I would have expected this year.

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"I never expected him to live this long, he had been thrown out of the litter and was only expected to survive for a couple of weeks, " she said.

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As a father, I would be expected to nurture and to protect this life that my wife and I had brought into this world.

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And I actually had expected that there would be some tensions at this meeting, and in fact the atmosphere was really very warm and friendly.

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If this had been the Ryder Cup, I would have expected Garcia to have turned up the heat and played some of the flamboyant shots we know he is capable of, but perhaps they are taking it easy.

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