Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] hoping for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 2 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 3 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
| 4 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 5 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 6 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 7 | Sorry to anyone who 'd been hoping for a match report from Newcastle , but I went home to Wakefield the morning after the game and so did n't get a chance to post one . |
| 8 | As soon as you get the good news you 've been hoping for , accept it . |
| 9 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 10 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 11 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 12 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 13 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 14 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 15 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 16 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 17 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 18 | HE REALIZED IN THAT instant that this was the love he had been hoping for , his quest fulfilled . |