Example sentences of "hope [prep] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |
| 2 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 3 | The best she could hope for was that someone would come along and abuse her in various disgusting and incomprehensible ways . |
| 4 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 5 | All she could hope for was that Spiderglass would never find out who she really was . |
| 6 | In such cases the most that an employer could hope for was that by his treatment of his workers he could obtain some minimal loyalty . |
| 7 | There was no privacy for the dead : the most one could hope for was a certain reverence . |
| 8 | The best he could hope for was to give his thoughts free rein , to recapture phrases , images , notions , and play with them , allowing them to make patterns in his mind . |
| 9 | The best he could hope for was to see Helen a bit while she was on the rebound … but maybe … |
| 10 | As it was , the most she could hope for was his speedy return to Hong Kong , but for now she supposed she would just have to endure a certain amount of contact , as he had warned her earlier at the party just before leaving her with Cavell Fielding and Penny Seu Chen . |
| 11 | When she had decided to go after a job with children , the best she had hoped for was a mother's-help place ; she was n't trained as a nanny or anything like that . |
| 12 | The most she had hoped for was a shedding of the burden of guilt she had carried , and Luke 's understanding . |
| 13 | Or rather , since he indubitably wanted a relationship with Alexandra , perhaps what he hoped for was to dictate the terms , rather than have them dictated to him . |
| 14 | Even in our progressive and sanguine moods , the utmost that we hoped for was a very gradual and a very tentative improvement . |
| 15 | What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever . |