Example sentences of "hope that [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a hope that we could persuade him to go back , ‘ turn ’ him , if you like . |
| 2 | Lets hope that we can keep it up . |
| 3 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 4 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 5 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 6 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 7 | Her hope that he would say it was for Berenice 's sake died as soon as it was born . |
| 8 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 9 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 10 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 11 | I preserved the worm in alcohol and despatched it to Dr Herring in the hope that he could identify it ; I 'll be interested to find out exactly what it is . |
| 12 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 13 | But Emily 's great wish from childhood , confided to her small admirer David on his first visit , is to be a lady , and when her beauty and refinement attract David 's glamorous friend Steerforth , she elopes with him in the hope that he will bring her home a lady . |
| 14 | Thousands of people took AZT in the hope that it would make them feel better and live longer . |
| 15 | By this time , however , the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ had produced and tested an atomic bomb , and the new President Truman agreed House the fearful weapon against the Japanese in the hope that it would cause them to agree to a ceasefire . |
| 16 | To draw attention to their plight , they blockaded the road in the hope that it would get them priority for repairs . |
| 17 | Primate tool use has been studied by anthropologists in the hope that it might tell us something about our own evolution ; by psychologists trying to obtain a better understanding of problem solving and intelligence ; and by animal behaviourists simply because the use of tools among wild primates is part of their natural repertoire of behaviour . |
| 18 | In the hope that it will lock them in to the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC family , Silicon Graphics Inc has persuaded eight of the major MIPS chip users and fabricators — Control Data Systems Inc , Integrated Device Technology Inc , NEC Corp , Sumishomo Electronics Co Ltd , Sumitomo Corp , Tandem Computers Inc , Tata Enterprises Overseas Pte Ltd and Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc to participate in a modest way in the share offering it is making to raise cash to bolster the balance sheet of its MIPS Computer Systems acquisition . |
| 19 | Here , I am going to discuss tackle in more depth in the hope that it will help you to choose the best . |
| 20 | This chapter mixes our personal story with principles from the book of Acts in the hope that it will help you to get on with it ! |
| 21 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 22 | Do n't try and answer something you do not understand in the hope that you can work it out as you go along . |
| 23 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 24 | In my view this book would deprave and corrupt young children and I draw your attention in the sincere hope that you will find it possible to take action against the publishers . |
| 25 | I have appended a small article in the hope that you will find it useful and as a measure of my support for ‘ Observations ’ and I hope it does well . |
| 26 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |