Example sentences of "i hoped " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting to make bachelor apparatus interesting again , as I hoped it might . |
| 2 | ‘ I hoped you two silly dykes had realised Nirvana , but here you are , alone and palely loitering for the love of your Lucy-o ! |
| 3 | I hoped to placate the toad . |
| 4 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 5 | I hoped the dogs would be in the garden but the moment I stepped inside I was surrounded by five of the massive dogs . |
| 6 | I hoped the dogs had n't heard it . |
| 7 | I hoped this trench was deep enough , and the roof strong enough to give us some protection from the increasing mortar fire that was now coming our way . |
| 8 | I hoped so . |
| 9 | I also reminded her of her predictions concerning Lord Lovat and herself , and that I hoped very much to see the end of the campaign in Normandy and looked forward to meeting her again in the Highlands . |
| 10 | Since then I have always had trouble with films that were supposed to teach me something , or from which I hoped to learn . |
| 11 | ‘ I hoped that she had really decided to go for Giles Hawick instead . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
| 13 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 14 | I hoped that the NFC would be a pioneer not only in privatization but also in improving employee relations . |
| 15 | By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name . |
| 16 | I smiled , benignly I hoped , wondering about laying a hand on head or shoulder but fearing I might not be able to carry it off . |
| 17 | I hoped she would ask me to stay . |
| 18 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 19 | ‘ Mostly I hoped they had n't . ’ |
| 20 | And , believe me , Ari , if you have developed as I hoped , you are truly ‘ free ’ |
| 21 | I had drawn a fairly creditable sketch of the castle when , as I hoped , I heard voices behind me . |
| 22 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 23 | I hoped Doone would net him soon , but I had n't much faith . |
| 24 | I hoped what I had written was okay . |
| 25 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 26 | At one point , I hoped this might be the twist , but no such luck . |
| 27 | Matata slept outside and promised to keep the fire burning ; I hoped he was a light sleeper . |
| 28 | I knew that informed public opinion might be shifting , but also that the school to which I hoped to return as head would not yet be very different from the one which I had left as a history teacher . |
| 29 | ‘ I hoped you 'd say that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I hoped that the atmosphere backstage would n't be as I had imagined , which was the typical Manchester Iciness . |