Example sentences of "[verb] what [pron] had hoped for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the right of the back door , she found what she had hoped for , a Victorian window with a pane broken in the top light , leaving the catch within easy reach of someone of Theodora 's height . |
| 2 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 3 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | She must have briefly feared what I had hoped for . |
| 5 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |