| Here's hoping for another delightful snow day soon, to be spent at home in bed with an ice cream sundae. |
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| The Dorset dialect jingle asks for a husband, and finishes by hoping for a good one, but anyone better than never a one. |
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| So whenever an overly supernatural event happens, it's almost a distraction, rather than the thrilling surprise the creators were hoping for. |
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| Like an insomniac passing the time, she stares blindly into the artificial luminescence, as though hoping for either a diversion or a soporific. |
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| The greedy geese drove off the ducks and chased after pensioners, hoping for a feed. |
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| He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work. |
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| The private-equity funds are hoping for a Hollywood ending, although the picture is looking dark now as DVDs continue to siphon off moviegoers. |
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| But they are certainly a more welcome sight for traders hoping for a good sales season. |
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| But before the event hits the Valley, a Rossendale woman will be hoping for success in the real version of the hit show. |
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| While she may be reaching for the stars, Jacinta has her feet firmly planted on the ground and is hoping for a good result. |
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| Great Britain will be hoping for a hat trick of golds today to add to the two won in successive days in Athens. |
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| Shareholders hoping for a break-up of the business may be disappointed, but details of dividend policy and share buy-backs are likely. |
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| Many investors were hoping for the Goldilocks scenario of just enough growth to sustain earning but not enough to stir inflation. |
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| Teenage girls were spotted around the village peeping through windows of some of the biggest homes, desperately hoping for a glance of Gareth. |
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| We have kept hoping for as long as we could, but we have to accept Margaret has probably gone and at last her suffering has ended. |
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| If you're hoping for a complex, nuanced meditation on the nature of nationalism, this is not the film for you. |
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| In spring time, at the beginning of the farming calendar, everybody would be hoping for a fruitful year for their families and fields. |
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| The captain was hoping for some luck with the toss, and after calling correctly he had no hesitation in reaching for his bowling boots. |
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| Anyone hoping for an intelligent exploration of the rights and wrongs of scientists who play God will only be disappointed. |
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| He will also be hoping for more support if he is successful in his bid for Livingston. |
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| He added that in the long term his group was hoping for an effective relief road for the town centre. |
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| We were hoping for rain today, but it was dry, so we had to play a bit of rugby instead. |
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| Organiser are hoping for a bumper crowd for the highlight of the Sunday soccer season. |
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| We didn't understand very much but we were hoping for a new life and a new country. |
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| They will be hoping for an easy draw in the next round so they can get the show back on the road. |
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| He was hoping for a fresh start when we moved from Trowbridge to Holt two years ago. |
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| Immediately after her birth the mother rejected the child as she was hoping for a baby boy. |
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| We were hoping for a treat as we headed over to the restaurant one Thursday evening. |
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| People come to our office hoping for help, for a gift that might transform their lives. |
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| Their support play was so weak that players kicked the ball aimlessly into space, hoping for a green and red jersey to pick it up. |
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| We are urging farmers to ask for help rather than waiting and hoping for the best. |
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| We have been writing letters to local companies for sponsorship and just hoping for the best. |
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| Dave works as a cabin crew air steward, but is hoping for a career as a commercial airline pilot. |
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| You have got to pretend everything is okay for your family and keep hoping for the best. |
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| The project is not about chucking these recruits in at the deep end and hoping for the best. |
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| I sent a message to Allison, hoping for a voice of reason to help regain my composure. |
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| The admirals kept hoping for a major clash of capital ships instead of submarine warfare. |
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| The club is hoping for a better second half to the season but life is hard because of the financial restraints. |
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| It's kind of what I was hoping for, it's why I witch the narrator so you can see how each character thinks and feels and stuff. |
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| We were hoping for a pigeon pair but I am now happy with our two gorgeous boys. |
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| I was hoping for a clearer delineation between intuition and pattern recognition in the introduction. |
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| Mrs Mitchell said that they are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. |
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| And we have 100,000 demonstrators out there, so we are hoping for the absolute worst. |
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| Muslims in Afghanistan aligned with the Northern Alliance were hoping for a particular parliamentary system. |
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| The notion that democracy can't be imposed but has to grow indigenously easily becomes an excuse for doing nothing and hoping for the best. |
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| I ask him if he can give me some idea what kind of look he's hoping for, so I can do some prep in advance. |
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| The Tigers are also hoping for a 20,000-plus crowd for their first home game since January 17, having made the match all-ticket for away fans. |
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| For example, they'll buy a stock after-hours when a positive earnings report is released, hoping for a gap up on the following trading day. |
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| We will take the time available, looking at the red and green lights and hoping for amber. |
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| Results were inconclusive but the paint is hoping for a late swing its way. |
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| As I zeroed the rifle at 100 yards, I was hoping for groups of less than 3 inches. |
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| The play ends with the maistre and vignerons hoping for more victories from Louis and a dauphin to secure the succession. |
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| Tell her he didn't wait in the alley behind restaurants hoping for a scrap of leftovers. |
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| The 300 tickets available for the event sold out weeks ago and there is a long waiting list of people hoping for returns. |
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| Instead, he waited eagerly, anxiously, praying and hoping for his son's return. |
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| This year officials are hoping for a more conventional Saturday cracker night as a prelude to two final races on the Sunday. |
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| In addition, exports have not performed anywhere near the levels the department was hoping for. |
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| I am hoping for some general riotousness this weekend, since Mariella is in town. |
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| Each summer, the company invites a boatload of bright young apprentice singers, all hoping for some quality stage experience. |
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| I took over from him but aquaplaned off the flooded track so I'm hoping for much better luck on this occasion. |
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| As Chieftian John is now hoping for is fine weather, and the forecast is promising. |
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| His just couldn't keep his eyes from looking out of the glass panels and roving over the plains, hoping for a sight of her. |
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| Its quartet of characters couple up on the Fourth of July, hoping for fireworks. |
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| What I am hoping for here, your Lordship, is that, if one bill is scrutinised, why not another? |
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| Privately, I was hoping for a more exotic port of call than Rockville Centre, where Mary and I were renting a house. |
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| Australian striker Mark Viduka is hoping for a recall to an attack which has totalled just four goals in the last six matches. |
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| The majority of fans hoping for a return to the afternoon grand final next year don't have much hope at all, sadly. |
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| I set to work scrubbing on my green hair with the strongest lye soap, hoping for positive results. |
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| The riders must be hoping for a tailwind blowing in from the coast and up the valley. |
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| A writer is hoping for chart success with a touching song devoted to poorly youngster Kirsty Howard. |
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| Local people were hoping for a change in the wind to push the slick away from the coast. |
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| I would ride my bike the mile down to our mailbox and wait there for the mailman, hoping for something good to arrive. |
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| I wandered about in my swimming costume for a bit hoping for divine intervention. |
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| I'd been hoping for this, I love Les Mis, it's far and away my favourite musical. |
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| I believe this is a red herring that has worked well in past arguments and you keep hoping for someone to take the bait once again. |
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| Moody has a mirrored room where guests come to scry, hoping for a visit from a dead loved one. |
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| If things work well, I'm hoping for maybe a longer contract, and if not, well, that's it. |
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| I was not surprised to see him standing there alone, but I was hoping for the unexpected. |
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| Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say. |
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| In the years after World War II, prospectors went looking for oil across southeastern Utah, hoping for a gusher. |
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| We thought that we would point to a few dishes on the menu, hoping for the best. |
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| It's something of a disappointment when you had been hoping for a tirade of vitriol against humanity. |
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| Moore was hoping for some polite titters, but the audience exploded into laughter. |
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| In the mean time, let's keep hoping for an extinction-level meteor to hit the earth just so it takes him out too. |
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| We are hoping for 20,000 signatures for when we give the petition to the City this fall. |
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| She is hoping for a CD player and a trampoline because she attends gymnastics in Portlaoise. |
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| With the weather drying out a bit we are hoping for a high cloud base and light winds. |
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| It's safe to imagine that optimistic minds at Sun are hoping for an even larger share of the x86 market than their partner estimates indicate. |
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| So followers of the affect of the draw were hoping for a horse drawn low to land the big race itself. |
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| I was really hoping for a win but we played well and we are going in the right direction. |
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| I was hoping for that, and miraculously we've got there through some rough old seas. |
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| The girl tilted her head back, once again hoping for that shooting star, for a flicker of hope of a granted wish. |
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| I'm hoping for the US to stop short of that, but it's going to be pretty difficult. |
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| The leader of the group shouldered a much larger gun than the others and fired it into the trees hoping for a lucky shot. |
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| The lawmaker, hoping for discretion, deploys a shadowy envoy to send her child support in the form of regular wads of cash. |
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| The pint-sized player will be hoping for better fortunes in New York, where she has made three quarter-final appearances. |
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| What else is he hoping for from a relationship other than the occasional letter? |
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| It's going to be exciting for all of us and we will be hoping for a good points finish as just reward. |
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| Veterans groups are hoping for an Act of Parliament that would officially pardon the soldiers, victims of an unforgiving time. |
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| There is a caveat for anyone going into the disc hoping for a blow-by-blow description of the shoot and circumstances surrounding the film. |
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| This is a pretty blunt warning that candidates who are seen as anti-American, or as hoping for things to go wrong, are doomed. |
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| He looked skywards, imploring silently to the heavens above, hoping for divine inspiration. |
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| He was now hoping for a rapprochement with Shia Iraqis, a concord that I think is unlikely. |
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| He was hoping for spectacular revelations, including what he believed was an undiscovered continent hidden under the ice. |
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| They were hoping for BBQ, but it was impossible in the traditional sense, as it used a slow cooker to get the moist meat that we all desire. |
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| We would rather be that voice than the voice of the sycophants and bootlickers and those hoping for a spot at the trough. |
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| She looked around the kitchen, hoping for some kind of lever type doohickey. |
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| They were probably hoping for some packs of disposable nappies, baby lotion, and maybe a buggy, or a pram or something. |
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| She choked it down along with her revulsion, hoping for a clear head that would save her. |
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| But Anderson admitted the park's unique location also serves as a deterrent to the deluge of visitors he's hoping for. |
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| I was hoping for a fight and a boxing match broke out, to paraphrase an old joke. |
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| With the chancellor in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion. |
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| He was hoping for an ambsace to split at the tables. |
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| We were hoping for a quick settlement of the dispute between the neighbors. |
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| I was just hoping for no wardrobe malfunction if you know what I'm saying. |
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| She prefers her other suitor, George Neville, but when Griffith loses his inheritance for her sake she accepts him, hoping for a contented marriage without undue submission. |
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| Come on, this incident was broadcast well after the watershed and I cannot believe that anyone who watched the show wasn't either expecting or hoping for some confrontation. |
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| It was only the second rainout of the year, but Geoff Parker and Eddie Martin still arrived hoping for a clearing of the skies, but they had to settle for a morning of tea. |
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| It hasn't snowed yet, but I'm always hoping for a white Christmas. |
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| With the Test series fast approaching, Fleming will be hoping for similar hands from the rest of his batsmen to prevent yet another whitewash at the hands of Pakistan. |
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| If Labour is hoping for a nice, tidy Scottish campaign, where everybody keeps to non-devolved issues and avoids the Scottish dimension, it could be in for a surprise. |
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| After the knock suffered by the industry last year because of the Foot and Mouth crisis, tourism operators were hoping for rather better luck this year. |
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| I mean, most people on here are literally openly hoping for the leaks to continue and expand in scope and scale. |
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| I chose instead to fish the lee shore, hoping for a picture fish. |
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| Dave reveled in the situation and said it was just what he was hoping for. |
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| I was hoping for a revitalization of the independent exploitation scene. |
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| They rock out with unexpected intensity, but the song ends quickly, leaving the listener hoping for the band to flex their rock muscles a bit more. |
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| Not a great thing for a journalist hoping for a right royal row to report. |
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| I was hoping for it this morning, but with luck it'll arrive tomorrow. |
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| I am hoping for maybe a free mai tai or a trip through the buffet line. |
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| I'm finding it difficult to get myself motivated for the game, but if only to avoid the taunts and jeers of the Magyar Armchair Brigade, I'm hoping for at least a draw. |
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| The next day I'm mulling over the view from my window, watching the fat, grey clouds blossom in the thick air, hoping for a storm to clear the mood. |
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| After the game, the kids were lined up along the rail from the dugout to shallow right field, with their scorecards and baseballs in hand, hoping for an autograph. |
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| But the House minority leader, Richard Gephardt, is hoping for an upset. |
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| Maybe the producers are hoping for a bit of biffo this year? |
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| Riders were hoping for a fast ride on bitumen for the last leg of the trip to Marlo, then back to Orbost, but a howling head wind and light rain changed those plans. |
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| We're hoping for the best and at the moment the birds are singing more tunefully than normal, there is a lightness in my step and I'm singing happy songs. |
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| I was hoping for at least some wingnut or moonbat to find a way to link the current White House staff to the high winds and driving rains approaching North Carolina right now. |
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| Organisers are hoping for more blistering heat to draw in the crowds. |
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| The feeling of being burned after hoping for peace and the feeling of being hunted down, victimized and targeted is real. |
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| And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century. |
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| A mile off the Ft. Lauderdale coast, mom and daughter dropped their baited lines, hoping for a nibble from grouper or triggerfish to take home for dinner. |
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| With plenty of good vibrations, soul and spirit, this year's Festival is sure to garner some new fans, which is exactly what Hayden and Deen are hoping for. |
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| Now, India's scrappy generics industry is hoping for a bigger conquest. |
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| On the other hand, people who dislike Tebow are rabidly hoping for him to fail. |
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| I'm hoping for the latter, not banking on it though because he and his cabal will do anything to maintain control up to and including criminal activity. |
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| The great majority of investors choose to be passive bystanders, hoping for the best and wringing their hands occasionally when they hear of another collapse. |
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| But right now, people here are hoping for the best, but realize that much of the small island could be under water by the time Hurricane Charley passes by Florida. |
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| If an airline were inclined to go lax on security, hoping for the best rather than working to guarantee it, its insurers would quickly step in to correct it. |
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| Now that Mubarak is gone, Rutherford said, Americans are hoping for a successor government that will have popular support. |
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| As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a tree, off in the distance. |
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| I cast a big streamer pattern on a size 6 hook hoping for a big trout. |
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| The Orkney side are hoping for a large number of exiled Orcadian rugby fans, living in or around Stirling, to turn up and show their support on the day. |
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| Mostly they chunter their piece, hoping for no errors in pronunciation. |
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| Merchants are hoping for a crush of last minute shoppers today, and bargain hunters after Christmas to make up for disappointing sales up until now. |
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| However grand or private or idiosyncratic a state of affairs I have in mind, I can go on hoping for it in the only way that remains possible to me. |
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| The board is hoping for favourable weather and another big attendance. |
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| The committee are hoping for a fine weekend to crown their efforts. |
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| Through broadcast news, we've all seen the franticness of worried seniors, spending the night in long lines hoping for a shot of the scarce flu vaccine. |
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| Conservationists are now hoping for fine weather this year to give the tiny chicks of birds such as lapwing, curlew, redshank and snipe a chance of survival. |
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| I'm hoping for January 21, thus ensuring that the premiere of America Idol 2 will be pre-empted for war coverage, and I won't be forced to watch it with Natalie. |
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| We're hoping for a little girl and have decided on a name already! |
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| In the film, Macy's character was totally enclosed in the irony and yet we could identify with his desperate puniness without hoping for him to get away with his crime. |
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| Some were hoping for mass direct action to disrupt the base. |
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| I am hoping for discretion and will certainly give that in return. |
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| He had been hoping for a quick end to this campaign, utilizing the ship's guns to pound the hillsides above the defenders in an effort to dislodge and disorganise them. |
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| As the days progressed, students looked enviously at the empty staff parking lots while they fumed in line, or cruised the designated student lots hoping for parking spots. |
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| The local management is hoping for a better full year out-turn than last year, but it is not stated whether this is before or after exceptionals are taken into account. |
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| They also were hoping for some down time to spend some quality time with each other without children around. |
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| Some drillers hoping for diamonds have gotten into trouble, since about 80 per cent of forest rings contain pockets of natural gas. |
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| She'll have a fit when she finds out a younger woman got the job she was hoping for. |
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| When you see it, you'll know why I'll be hoping for it to swing the odds in my favour. |
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| Adding to Dan's woes, 14-year-old William runs away from home to join the posse, hoping for an adventure like in the dime store novels. |
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| At match pointed pairs, you should play for the overtrick by laying down the ace of diamonds, hoping for a singleton king. |
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| Thomson replied on the 27th, revealing that he was planning his own experiments and hoping for a reconciliation of their two views. |
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| With a mere seven tracks unavailable elsewhere, the collection will underwhelm anyone hoping for a comprehensive collection of rare material. |
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| In the absence of a settlement, Louis remained in London with his remaining forces, hoping for the arrival of reinforcements from France. |
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| Newmarket permit holder George Haine is hoping for a big run from his stable star The Sliotar at Cheltenham on Sunday. |
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| Mr Newstead is hoping for better luck than in 2011 when the couple politely declined to accept a rocking horse he had sculpted as a wedding gift. |
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| Also at Warwick, John Tuck is hoping for a good show from Rio's King in the Questor International Novices' Trial Hurdle. |
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| The new owl is an eagle owl which are larger than barn Owls but the family are still hoping for positive news regarding their missing bird. |
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| We are hoping for Smith and Wesson to reinvolve themselves and see if they can jump-start the negotiations. |
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| Rather than the rebound and recovery I had expected, or at least was hoping for, this year, as it turns out, is becoming one of recalcitration. |
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| He hung about the doors and windows of shop after shop, hoping for a temporary absence of the shopkeeper, which might leave something snatchable. |
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| Disraeli regretted this, hoping for an opportunity, however brief, to show himself capable in office. |
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| Some were hoping for apotheosis at Jerusalem, or forgiveness from God for all their sins. |
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| Even in these conditions they stay outside, like hardy weeds, peering jumpily down the road, hoping for a sale. |
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| If you were hoping for a happy long-term or even lifelong relationship with old Potty Mouth, don't hold your breath. |
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| Any churchgoer hoping for more spiritual sustenance went hungry. |
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| Thomson replied on 27 October, revealing that he was planning his own experiments and hoping for a reconciliation of their two views. |
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| So by March 2003, when the first American and allied tanks rolled into Iraq, laborites there, who had been hoping for Saddam's overthrow for decades, were mostly cheering. |
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| He doesn't wany any cut in the ground, so we're hoping for no rain. |
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| It was built hoping for economic success, but reached a downturn due to technical limitations of the then early production process and limitations of the machines being used. |
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| As the position of captain could be quite profitable, it became quite attractive to lesser nobles and men of ambition hoping for a quick and easy fortune. |
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| He spent all day cozying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment. |
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| Lewis chose not to turn professional after the Olympics, and instead fought four more years as an amateur, hoping for a second chance to win a gold medal. |
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| King Henry VIII of England took the opportunity of the regency to propose marriage between Mary and his own son, Prince Edward, hoping for a union of Scotland and England. |
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| Males hoping for acceptance must undergo a perilous rite de passage. |
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| He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment. |
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| Tonight, Speed steps back out at the Philips Stadion hoping for a rather different result, as Newcastle clash with PSV Eindhoven in the Uefa Cup quarter-finals. |
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| Back on home turf, he is hoping for a few more punters as he unleashes his Fast Show characters Dave Angel Ecowarrior, Tommy Cockles and Competitive Dad. |
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| There are singletons hoping for matches made in heaven on Stand By Your Man, and we asked host Brian McFadden to dish the dirt on this new dating show. |
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| The angle-shooter here is hoping for a chance to steal the pot, but only if he sees that his opponent's hand is weak enough that she might not call a bet. |
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