Dic: expect (revisiting some usages of expect as a verb)

• He wasn't expecting our hospitality.
• I do expect to have some time to myself in the evenings.
• I wasn't expecting you to help.
• Is this a rational thing to expect of your partner, or not?
• She realizes now she expected too much of Helen.

3. VERB | If you expect something, or expect a person to do something, you believe that[:]
_ it is your right to have that thing, or
_ [it is] the person's duty to do it for you.

• Don't expect an instant cure.
• You cannot expect to like all the people you will work with.
• Don't expect me to come and visit you there.

4. VERB : with brd-neg | If you tell someone not to expect something, you mean that [:]
_ the thing is unlikely to happen as they have planned or imagined, and
_ they should not hope that it will.

.... Cobuild (via Naver)