"I never expected for this to escalate as fast as it did, " Johnson said.
In that moment, I saw myself as one of my previous mentors, which was an honor I never expected to achieve.
But women not only responded in large numbers, they answered in a way I never expected: They too hate Valentine's Day.
"I never expected anything like this to happen because this is not a city - it's a village, " he told the BBC.
"I never expected to experience this in the Metropolitan Police, " he said.
Haleh Esfandiari's husband, professor Shaul Bakhash told The Associated Press, I never expected they would jail a 67-year-old woman for no reason whatsoever.
"I was always of the opinion that fair play in England is really important, and also the respect from the officials, but I never expected this reaction, " he said.
"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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"I have lost to that doubles pairing three times before so it was really nice to come away with a win and go home with a gold medal from the Youth Olympic Games - I never expected that, " said Golding.
She suggested as much when she said afterwards: "This is what you try to achieve - I never expected that I would come back in this position, but I'm glad I stuck through it and I live for these kinds of moments".
"I never, never expected the Argentines to invade the Falklands head-on, " she told the committee.
And my career development work includes starting my own firm, which I had never expected to do.
Yes, my business is crisis management, I just never expected it to hit so close to home.
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Like I said, I really never expected it to grow beyond 1, 000 customers.
"I honestly never expected this kind of reaction, " she says.
I've never expected that the danger of terrorism would be so close.
"I've never done anything brave in my life, I'm not expected to put myself at risk, I've never saved any lives and yet we seem to take for granted those who do so as a matter of routine, " she said.
"Through this process I went to places I have never been nor expected go, " Marwah says.
"I never really intended or expected Linux to become the kind of big cooperative movement that it has, " says Torvalds.
Many of us have wound up in places we never expected or wanted to be, emotionally as well as physically, I suppose.
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