"I shall expect your friends to call upon me within twenty-four hours."

Can you expect the bridegroom's friends to fast while the bridegroom is with them?

So what time do you expect your friends home this evening?

I'd have expected our friends to call before this," Isaac said in a soft voice.

What did I expect my friends to answer?

You come to expect your friends to drop dead, once you reach a certain age.

He expected his friends to understand what he wanted and hold back their quite justified reactions.

"Go back to the main cavern and keep watch - not that I expect our friends to return before I'm done."

How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job?

And do you really expect our friends to believe the monster was real?