Example sentences of "[adv] hope for the best " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 2 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 3 | He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it . |
| 4 | Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less . |
| 5 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 6 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 7 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 8 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 9 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |