Example sentences of "hope they would " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I could wait for dark , bypass the current in the fence , climb over , sneak up to the house , stick a bug on one of the windows and hope they would n't see it . ’ |
| 3 | Personally , I would hope they would do both . |
| 4 | Moreover , much of the apprentice and other training which their parents had hoped they would enter had disappeared . |
| 5 | But my children were as amazed at this strange petrel with its eerie call as I had hoped they would be . |
| 6 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 7 | Just about everyone hoped they would disappear without trace when that tide ebbed and frenetic buying and selling ground to a halt . |
| 8 | The offer was backdated to April , and there were now arrears waiting to be picked up varying from £653 to £12,090 ; she hoped they would consider that it was a reasonable offer . |
| 9 | Endill hoped they would stay healthy until they escaped . |
| 10 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 11 | I was a bit breathless , hoped they would n't notice . |
| 12 | All the way back I hoped they would still have the odd one to enable me to complete the suit and happily luck was with me . |
| 13 | ‘ As they approached I hoped they would ask me to join them for dinner as in the old days , ’ he recalls . |
| 14 | WHEN the Government accepted the Monopolies Commission recommendation that the big brewers should sell off some of their pubs , many publicans hoped they would be able to become independent landlords . |
| 15 | Buxton and Sturge both wished each other 's efforts well and hoped they would be complementary . |
| 16 | Indeed , he hoped they would provide the basis of a religion that could unite the warring factions of the Church . |
| 17 | He hoped they would pause before passing a clause within the range of which their sons might come . ’ |
| 18 | Did the things they told you about the ad or the product correspond at all to what you hoped they would get out of it ? |
| 19 | Nobody ever said this , but she half hoped they would . |
| 20 | I thought they were lucky in their officials — executive leader Ali Bacher , ANC official Steve Tshwete , manager Alan Jordaan , and coach Mike Procter — and hoped they would enjoy to the full this honeymoon period of World Cup cricket in which their national fans were firmly behind them . |
| 21 | Dauntless hoped they would not sting . |
| 22 | She almost hoped they would fall and die together . |
| 23 | Graham hoped they would paint the bridge tastefully . |
| 24 | Even the king , who , unlike his district governor , had practised these precepts himself , had not expected his subjects to do so too , though he hoped they would strive towards the ideal . |
| 25 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 26 | She hoped they would make the same allowances for her . |
| 27 | He hoped they would n't come back outside . |
| 28 | ‘ Lille ’ , wrote a local observer in 1869 , ‘ is not a capitalist town , it is first and foremost a great industrial and commercial centre ’ where men put their profits back into the business , did not play about with them , and hoped they would never have to borrow . |
| 29 | Why , only a couple of weeks ago you were saying you hoped they would n't even meet at the Family Day ; now you 're suggesting that she actually goes and stays where he works . |
| 30 | Her palms were sweating , and she hoped they would stop when she had to shake hands with him . |