5.39 expectations and wishes

If you want to say that something was expected, wished for, or intended before a particular time in the past, you use the past perfect or the past perfect continuous to show that it has not yet happened.

• She had naturally assumed that once there was a theatre everybody would want to go.
• It was the remains of a ten-rupee note which she had hoped would last till the end of the week.
• It was not as nice on the terrace as Clarissa had expected.
• I had been expecting some miraculous obvious change.