Sometimes, I think he half expected my mother to ride in one day and chase them away.

I expect your mother would have considered Jephtha's boys her concern.

The other, obviously, was his mother, but much older than I had expected his mother to be.

I looked around, expecting my mother to be up front, demanding to go on now and refusing to share the bill.

You don't expect your mother to wait up until midnight, do you?

He half expected his mother to tell him to get wood.

"I wouldn't really expect my mother to do this."

"Don't expect my mother to believe me, then," he protested in a whisper that was growing intolerable too.

Alice had expected Maddy's mother to be pretty, too, just so.

She hadn't expected her mother to drop a bomb on her.