Example sentences of "had hope to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had hoped to be back at the beginning of next season but it now looks unlikely to be until half-way through it . |
| 2 | We had hoped to be married in the middle of December , but in the first week of that month , Leslie wrote : ‘ Can you stand by to shift the date to , say , 22nd December ? |
| 3 | Trent had hoped to be able to observe Golden Girl but the rivulet had led him downstream and the yacht lay upriver beyond the bend . |
| 4 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 5 | John was a devout Christian and as a young man had hoped to be a minister , a vocation denied to him by a stammer in his speech . |
| 6 | The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying . |
| 7 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 8 | By 22 July , the date by which the military conspirators had hoped to be in control of the entire country , it was clear that the territory of Spain was split between the two camps ( see map on p. xv ) . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh suspected that he had hoped to be a member . |
| 10 | Rostov had hoped to be permitted to seal the hatch , and thus to preserve the interior of the ship from incursion by animal and insect life — as well as from the potentially damaging effects of atmosphere and temperature — but Arghatun had rejected the request out of hand . |
| 11 | They finished packing and left the farmhouse , where they had hoped to be so happy . |
| 12 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 13 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 14 | We had hoped to be able to support measures on so-called joyriding , on the establishment of an Environmental Protection Agency and on better employment conditions for women , but it appears that the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for this last came too recently for its inclusion in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 15 | Syria had hoped to be dropped from the list , having supported the US-led coalition in the Gulf war and participated in the Middle East peace talks . |
| 16 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 17 | Yeah I just I guess I had hoped to be pleasantly surprised that it was n't rhetoric |
| 18 | Michael Welby and his wife had hoped to be carried feet first out of the home they lived in at Gerard 's Cross for twenty-five years . |
| 19 | The Newcastle boss had hoped to be able to reveal the identity of the player yesterday before the move hit a hitch . |
| 20 | The 14-year-old Billingham schoolgirl , of Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers , had hoped to be lining up against Great Britain cross country international Angie Foster in the Inter County match between Cleveland and Northumberland at Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | I all had hoped to be able to bring before you a final draft of th the service it has not yet finally been passed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales therefore , discussions on what form and how it will be printed have not yet taken place . |