Example sentences of "[conj] hope [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez .
2 But as for perceptual and emotional awareness , lacking which we would have no motive to bother about facts , without pleasure or hope it simply fades .
3 I should feel my self higley gratefied in this favour from you for hur , & hope you will parden the libertey I take in this Important solicitation for my sister
4 Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’
5 ‘ I just wondered why somebody would bother to come way over here , unless they were meeting someone , privately … or hoping someone might take the hint and follow them . ’
6 Deborah also doubted Sebastian , although she never let it show , or hoped she did not let it show .
7 Well I just need to try and spread everything out and hope nobody goes there .
8 She should have known she could n't forget Undry and hope everything would just stop .
9 All the previous week Kidd had exhorted his forwards to concentrate on winning the battle up front and not simply live in hope that they could gain a few crumbs and hope their more skilful backs would steal a march on Shannon .
10 ‘ I could check us into a motel out of town you give the number to the Liaison Office I 'll give it to my office and hope their nasty little mints think that 's all that 's going on . ’
11 For many fans their only chance of getting a coveted Wembley ticket was to collect all three vouchers and hope their numbers came out in a draw .
12 With the sad death of their bass player David Mankaba behind them , the band are promoting their third LP , Absolute Jit , and hope their colourful music can bring a ray of sunshine to Darlington .
13 They already have advance orders for 3,000 copies and hope their Indian rave music will catapult them to the top of the charts .
14 After that we can apply for a licence and hope they let us ‘ go legal ’ . ’
15 All you can do is to keep moving , and hope they still have some bridies in the Ptarmigan restaurant .
16 No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away .
17 Spokesman Mark Glover said : ‘ We have been supported by Linda McCartney , Elton John and others in the past and hope they 'll support us now . ’
18 They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning .
19 ‘ We expect EDS will take part in its future development and hope they can help in bringing down its processing costs , ’ Hjoth concluded .
20 Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least .
23 We are pleased offer our detailed views below and hope they will be taken into account before the Government finalises its procedures for the implementation of the EC Directive .
24 I often think of your grandchildren and hope they are flourishing .
25 I 'd have done exactly what I 'm doing now — make contact with the family and hope they like me . ’
26 Will go to Viola and Gerald tonight and hope they talk of something else .
27 I want to leave by about ten tomorrow so I 'll get on to a garage first thing in the morning and hope they can fix my car straight away . ’
28 These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply .
29 Only one way to grab his interest — give him a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown at the outset of our allotted five-minute interview and hope we have the chance to exchange more than names .
30 ‘ Now I will have to sit at home with my fingers crossed and hope we get the right result . ’
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