Example sentences of "hoping [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 I was hoping to miss that one , because you might be trying to persuade me that I should erm , partake rather more of healthier food , than of the unhealthy food that I do eat .
2 They go from one set of arms to another , hoping to find that lasting union with the beloved .
3 Er again we 're hoping to attract that in maybe next year .
4 Gold addicts are , by nature , an optimistic bunch , unworried by the stomach-turning ups and downs of the gold price in recent years ; and gold-prospectors , hoping to catch that rogue speck in millions of gallons of silt-filled water , are every bit as resilient .
5 That 's not yet in operation , but we 're hoping to set that up .
6 If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing .
7 He 's hoping to do that .
8 But every year we still head for the beaches and strip off , hoping to turn that white skin a lovely golden bronze .
9 But the way Brian Harley is playing at the moment he must have been hoping to double that at least . ’
10 The British have n't done too well up until now but I 'm hoping to change that . ’
11 You might say , by the end of the week I 'm hoping to get that completed , and I 'll , then I 'll see what I 've got .
12 But he does n't want to talk money he 's hoping to get that bitch to come back and live with him and she does n't like us !
13 some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him
14 Britain 's black comics are hoping to follow that example — by ploughing an independent path — building their own support base and establishing their own venues .
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