So much time had gone by since the gunfire that they hardly expected to encounter police.

I didn't really expect to encounter any at all; according to the information I'd bought they only employed six of them.

We are lucky he did not expect to encounter you again so soon.

Captain, he said, we did not expect to encounter the enemy so quickly.

He expected to encounter something deadly, and not a ghost!

It was not a place where you would expect to encounter slick marketing research.

And that, of course, meant just about every situation he expected to encounter.

I expected to encounter you more formally at a later hour.

Expect to encounter these trouble spots in the coming weeks.

"We believe that he expected to encounter some resistance," a police official said.