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Example sentences for "had hoped"

  • This week I shall forward to the Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science all that I have been able to do thus far, being unable to bring it myself, as I had hoped.

  • I had hoped, in making fishes the special object of my researches, to add perhaps a hundred more.

  • The weeks he had spent there were all too short for the work he had hoped to do.

  • And he had hoped, by a little longer use, to make his counsel become necessary, which he knew to be a very short step from rendering it absolute.

  • All further conflict I had hoped to have saved you; and to the triumph of your goodness I had trusted for the recovery of your peace: but Mortimer has disappointed me, and our work is still unfinished.

  • All these dangers Sir Timothy had seen and studied, and for each of them he had hoped to be able to provide an antidote.

  • I had hoped we might both talk rationally as friends.

  • Here was a man without a shilling, whose manifest duty it was to go to work so that he might earn his bread, who instead of doing so, had hoped to raise himself to wealth and position by entrapping the heart of an unwary girl!

  • As long as it had been possible to prevent the evil he had hoped to make a clean breast of it to Lord Silverbridge.

  • And I had hoped that I might live to see it very often.

  • Then here,' said the old gentleman, 'is a little manuscript, which I had hoped to have the pleasure of reading to you myself.

  • It will be necessary for me to leave town, for a short time, on private business, and I had hoped to have prevailed upon you to allow Sam to accompany me.

  • I had hoped to have seen many more natives in this locality; but it struck me, from what I observed, that they were dispersed at the different water-holes, there being no one locality capable of supporting any number.

  • I really shuddered at the re-appearance of those solid waves which I had hoped we had left behind, but such was not the case.

  • I had hoped to have advanced some 60 miles beyond this point, but now found that it would be impossible to do so.

  • All was useless, the treasure disappeared, and had again reverted to the genii from whom for a moment he had hoped to carry it off.

  • But she is bearing it better now--much better than I had hoped for.

  • It is at best a prison life, too; not the life I had hoped for, nor what I am best fitted for.

  • I had hoped that my requests had made more impression," said he.

  • At this point we were six miles distant from the South Side Railroad, which I had hoped by this movement to reach and hold.

  • This battle was recognized by me as being a decided victory, though not so complete as I had hoped for, nor nearly so complete as I now think was within the easy grasp of the commanding officer at Corinth.

  • His testimony, therefore, proved to be what we had hoped of his mother's.

  • It was near the end of December before we reached the vicinity of Mount Meadowbank, though we had hoped to be far beyond it by that time.

  • We had hoped to have Narleyow go with us to Depot Island, as he had previously been up Back's River and knew a route overland by which in three days we could reach a river where some Kinnepatoos were encamped all the year round.

  • He therefore gave up the farming occupation by which he had hoped to make himself a master-farmer, and left the spot to return to his mother.

  • But a few days after, when the question of investing the money arose, he remarked that she did not seem so satisfied as he had hoped.

  • The report pleased Millborne; it was highly creditable, and far better than he had hoped.

  • Of course he had hoped, but it was a hope without any foundation.

  • If half you say about the ginseng comes true, I can make a payment worth while before I had hoped to.

  • I had hoped I could pull her through with care, food, and tonics, but I don't dare go any farther alone.

  • He had hoped to die sword in hand, but that was not to be.

  • He took it much to heart, for he thought he had won his spurs and pleased the King extraordinarily," He had hoped to please the King and win freedom again, but his hopes were shattered.

  • Then it would seem that Herrick had not found all the joy he had hoped for in London, for two years later, although rocks had not turned to rivers, nor rivers to men, he went back to his "loathed Devonshire.

  • I had hoped to take him one day with me to England.

  • All that he had hoped to do was to persuade Percy to release him from it for awhile.

  • He had hoped to tire out his nerves as well as his body, but in this he had not succeeded.

  • I have been punished where I had hoped to be rewarded," Michael said to me just now.

  • It does not always give the happiness we had hoped for, but it brings some other.

  • He had just wound up his confidential discourse by speaking to me of a joiner's business which he had hoped to buy, and work to good account with Robert's help.

  • He had hoped to get the king to Page 20 Rouen under this protection, as I gather, though this matter has never wholly transpired, But the king could not be persuaded to trust any one.

  • But not such was the manner in which he had hoped to see it take place ; he had hoped it would have been more spontaneous, and the work of the French themselves to overthrow the usurpation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    economic performance; had already; had before; had done; had ever; had for; had gone; had himself; had learned; had managed; had never heard before; had nothing; had now; had once; had previously; had put; had resolved; had scarcely; had sent; had set; had spoken; had time; had you; marble slab; really must; reasonable creature