Example sentences of "[conj] hope [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to suggest that all , or indeed any , should be discarded ; if England have to go for maturity and hope for the best , so be it .
2 So it 's surprising that when we 're staying in a guest house on a walking holiday we 're content just to order ‘ a packed lunch ’ , and hope for the best .
3 But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best .
4 It is not enough to rely on vitamin pills and hope for the best .
5 I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best
6 Liam just decided to ignore it all and hope for the best .
7 I would just wait at home and hope for the best — you know , that a decent price would be bid .
8 ‘ I give them aspirin and hope for the best .
9 Meanwhile , we must accept an uneasy status quo and hope for the best .
10 ‘ I 'll just have to keep pestering and hope for the best . ’
11 Maybe he 'd already unearthed what was left , and it was too late just to warn him off and hope for the best .
12 Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best .
13 * Care for the Elderly and Hope for the Hurt Mind
14 2Care* * Care for the Elderly and Hope for the Hurt Mind
15 A film depicting a universal message of love and hope by the Dutch TV company IKON won the second prize .
16 We welcome the wider scope now open to married women of serving on town councils , and hope in the near future that many of our women will have the opportunity of doing useful work on our local health committees .
17 On balance , the best policy ahead of such a closely-fought election is to hang on and hope for the best .
18 The next day , and the day after , his requests for an audience met with a blunt refusal and the clerk had to stay and hope for the best .
19 The others will have to stay here and hope for the best .
20 It was far safer to start a town off with a charter , a market and a fair , and a few other practical inducements to settlers , and then to sit back and hope for the best .
21 She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best .
22 While it would be quite wrong to use this as a justification for the existence of certain exceptionally laborious jobs , it is also quite wrong to regard stress , tedium and alienation simply as the result of advanced technology and modern capitalism and to hope with the Marxist that by changing certain structures we can achieve some Utopia .
23 For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best .
24 Look , in my day , before the war , we always had wingers , none of this booting up the middle and hoping for the best .
25 Issues like food additives do concern me but I 'm just not sure whether it 's worth worrying — I usually end up following my own instincts and hoping for the best . ’
26 They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’
27 He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best .
28 The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request .
29 Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best .
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