Example sentences of "hoping [adv] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 2 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 3 | I kept throwing those accusations at you , hoping desperately that you 'd deny them , explain them somehow … ’ |
| 4 | Hoping desperately that she had not changed her mind , he leaned over and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 5 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 6 | er we 're hoping now that we will be able to take into account a much broader range of factors . |
| 7 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 8 | She ought to be hoping instead that they did go to Civitavecchia and finally sorted out the mystery of Jeff and Silvia . |