Example sentences of "i [be] hoping " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames . |
| 2 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 3 | I am hoping we can now arrange a telephone link-up with the Theobalds to discover whether they will , after all , be coming to the party tonight . |
| 4 | I am hoping to buy a 4–5 year old Ninety diesel . |
| 5 | Speaking at Bramshott Common , while the TV crew were filming the reconstruction , Sergeant Nickol said : ‘ I am hoping this programme will bring forward something which we can positively work on . ’ |
| 6 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 7 | I am hoping to compile a short book of poems on dogs — I was wondering if any readers might like to send me any ? |
| 8 | Suppose that I am hoping to discuss some urgent problem with a friend , and ask , |
| 9 | ‘ I am hoping he will run on Saturday . |
| 10 | ‘ I have two years left of my contract , and I am hoping to have a benefit in 1995 . |
| 11 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 12 | He said : ‘ If I am half as good a player as Paul McGrath I 'll be satisfied — but obviously I am hoping to become better than him . ’ |
| 13 | I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future ! |
| 14 | Mr Bradburn said yesterday : ‘ I am hoping this will die a death . |
| 15 | I am hoping to set up a Koi pool in a large shed . |
| 16 | ‘ I am hoping you 'll agree to an interview for Der Spiegel . |
| 17 | So it is a major curriculum initiative itself and I am hoping it is going to have a knock-on effect and get people to consider the way they teach fairly radically . |
| 18 | ‘ I am hoping to tie up a television documentary which will enable me to visit the former soviet Union . |
| 19 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 20 | I am hoping to start with about seven tanks . |
| 21 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 22 | I am hoping this will improve my grasp of the key issues so that I can make a more direct contribution on this front in future . |
| 23 | As a result , I have drafted a document which I am hoping to publish and circulate widely . |
| 24 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 25 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 26 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 27 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps I am hoping that temper will sustain you through this ordeal . |
| 29 | I am hoping that you will observe that I have fetched in enough buckets of coal this afternoon to spare you having to carry them in tomorrow . |
| 30 | Word filters through some of you are not receiving all the material that you would like and I am hoping to rectify this by having an up to date record of what is needed . |