"So you can expect a more favorable performance relative to other investments."

But he's taught us to expect a fine performance from him.

I should have expected a meatier performance in the car from most other politicians.

They said they had expected a better performance by the publishing business.

I expect a big performance from them in the tests.

We've come to expect a pretty good performance out of him.

She does so but is unaware that the audience expect an explicit performance.

They don't expect a miracle, a complete game or even a vintage performance.

How could anyone have possibly expected such a performance from someone whose last major league start was July 16, 1997?

Then at least we could go into a bank or a restaurant and expect a plausible performance of decent service.