Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] have hope for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young are more forgiving than adults , and despite the haughty isolation I had practised , I was far more accepted than I could have hoped for . |
| 2 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 3 | I 'll be as quick as I can and you 'll have to hope for the best until I get back . |
| 4 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 5 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 6 | Not a pretty death , but as peaceful as she could have hoped for , given the circumstances . |
| 7 | More than that he can mash these lists of prospects together to produce delightfully implausible juxtapositions : exercise-bike owners who take educational holidays to the Ukraine ( there are only seven in Greater London ) ; lepers with a penchant for Janet Reger lingerie ( surprisingly enough , several hundred in Roseland alone ) ; Liberal Democrat Nintendo enthusiasts who are also Wagner buffs ( not as many as one might have hoped for ) . |
| 8 | Announcing the results of the extended talks , Baker said that " clear gains " had been achieved in arms control and trade issues , but achievements on human rights were " not as much as we would have hoped for " . |
| 9 | ‘ We achieved about as satisfactory a report as we could have hoped for and that has helped us enormously in developing the future of the organisation . |
| 10 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |