Example sentences of "hoping for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 2 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 3 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , whenever we feel out of sorts , tired , sick of ourselves and others and in need of ‘ restoration ’ ( origin of the word restaurant ) , it 's more than likely we will head for the kitchen hoping for some well-known and trusted food from our past . |
| 5 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 6 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 7 | She paused , as though hoping for some kind of contradiction . |
| 8 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 9 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 10 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 11 | You 're supposed to be taking things easy , and I come home after a day 's work and a beastly journey hoping for some restoration and some intelligent company . |
| 12 | ‘ I think , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ that the Bishop 's hoping for some movement before that . |
| 13 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 14 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 15 | I sink a little lower in the bed hoping for some sleep . |
| 16 | He glanced at the face of the God , hoping for some sign of approval , but the lifeless eyes pierced him through . |
| 17 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 18 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 19 | One minute the firm was having a few financial problems and hoping for some helpful investment advice , the next their premises were sold off to a factory development corporation , their directors sacked , the workforce were redundant . |
| 20 | Though she rarely drank , Charity drained her small bottle of wine , hoping for some small illusion of warmth from it . |
| 21 | She rather thought he was hoping for some reciprocal comment or gesture , but for the life of her , whether he thought it unforgivable or not , she just had to burst out laughing , and ‘ Lubor ! ’ she laughed . |
| 22 | But RSI sufferes who 're hoping for some compensation from their employers are worried the Judge 's ruling may make harm their chances . |
| 23 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 24 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 25 | Savage , whose injury was so bad he is unable to play at non-League level , is hoping for some kind of runout at Burnden Park on November 17 when Bolton face Manchester City in a joint benefit match for him and Frank Worthington . |
| 26 | Savage , whose injury was so bad he is unable to play at non-League level , is hoping for some kind of runout at Burnden Park on November 17 when Bolton face Manchester City in a joint benefit match for him and Frank Worthington . |