Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have hope for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had hoped for justice and understanding when my story was known , that was not to be . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 3 | Clelia 's visit , however , was all that she had hoped for . |
| 4 | This was better than she had hoped for ! |
| 5 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 6 | Labour 's victory , widely predicted but with a smaller swing than they had hoped for , essentially ruled out any chance of a snap poll . |
| 7 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 8 | The captain spoke few words , but agreed that the crew were better than he 'd hoped for , and that the ship was a fine one . |
| 9 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 10 | In the end , de Gaulle 's margin of victory in the referendum of 28 October 1962 was less impressive than he had hoped for : only sixty-two per cent of those who voted approved the change . |
| 11 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |
| 12 | He looked old and forlorn , in spite of the ferocious beard , as if he had hoped for something and been disappointed . |
| 13 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 14 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 15 | " No , I suppose not , but I had hoped for something a little more exotic . |
| 16 | But she had hoped for too much , and Matthew remained unforgiving , not actively unfriendly towards her but always out of her reach . |
| 17 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 18 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 19 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 20 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 21 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |