as I expect vs as I expected

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'As I expect' is used when talking about something you currently expect to happen in the future, while 'as I expected' is used when referring to something you expected to happen in the past.

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as I expect

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to something you currently expect to happen in the future.

This phrase is used to express what you anticipate or foresee happening in the future.

Examples:

As I expect, the meeting will be postponed.
As I expect, she will arrive late.

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If it's as baseless as I expect it to be...
Let me say only this... none of the speculation carried in your pages is far from the truth of the matter, and should the courts, as I expect them to do, find Edmund Reid guilty, no matter his years of service,
I'm Valerie Spalding, as I expect you know.
And as I expect the VRA to pass...
If everything goes as I expect it to, you'll be out of here this afternoon.
Then I will have done my job, as I expect you guys to do yours.
It's not without risk, but if things go as I expect, you'll have a healthy child.
If the reviews are as good as I expect, you'll be back on Broadway next season.
If the meetings in D.C. go as I expect them to, you'll have nothing to worry about.
As I had the experience from abroad that there is a few things as I expect.
Should we return to Provence, as I expect that we will, we will certainly consider staying at [this apartment] again, should it be available.
It does not take up much time and I have tried to be as clear and simple myself as I expect you to be.
The employees would receive no other remuneration, but I imagine that they would be well paid as I expect these offices to do plenty of business.
Allow me then to express my hope that the Commission performs its duties and that the Spanish Presidency, as I expect of all the following Presidencies, acts with great caution and respect towards the other Member States of the Union.
For my tastes, it's as good as I expect to find for anywhere near the money. I suspect I'd have to spend a least double the money to get a noticeable improvement in performance.
And as I expect the VRA to pass...
Let's see what she says: Every time something doesn't work as I expect, I am always ready to blame others [persecutory vicissitude].
If, as I expect, Mrs McNally's amendment is accepted, I dare say we shall talk not about a treaty, but at least about a charter.
As I expect to have to pay it, I would like to savour these last moments of not being pestered by the taxman.
I speak not out of weak surmise but from proof as strong... as my grief and as certain as I expect my revenge.

Alternatives:

As I anticipate
As I foresee
As I predict
As I imagine
As I believe

as I expected

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to something you expected to happen in the past.

This phrase is used to express that something happened in the way you anticipated or foresaw in the past.

Examples:

As I expected, he didn't show up.
As I expected, the project was a success.

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You came here just as I expected.
About as well as I expected.
Just as I expected, Boss with the Cross.
Not even in the music room as I expected.
Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
However, in my tests none of the subjects really popped against the background, as I expected them to.
Her echo was clean, as I expected.
Not nearly as shrinky as I expected.
Empty pap, just as I expected.
It has not been as I expected.
That wasn't as bad as I expected.
The location of the hotel was as I expected great.
My classes and life in general not as intensely regulated as I expected.
Though I find you not nearly alone as I expected.
I didn't age as well as I expected.
No complaints at all, everything was as I expected.
And just as I expected... you succeeded.
It wasn't as expensive as I expected.
Matters were about as I expected to find them.
It has been a high-level championship as I expected.

Alternatives:

As I foresaw
As I predicted
As I imagined
As I believed
As I thought

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