Sentence examples for hope of retrieving from inspiring English sources

They forged the habit, as yet unbroken, of deliberately misplacing volumes that they wanted to buy but couldn't immediately afford, in the hope of retrieving them later.

They said they had no hope of retrieving anything from within the oil well, like a cement liner that might have failed.

When Jennifer Boatright and Ron Henderson complained to the county in the hope of retrieving their savings, they got another surprise.

Is there any hope of retrieving such sophistication — the refinement not of technology but of suavity, in which a microphone tucked behind a painting seems more telling than a trip to outer space?

Yi's base was, to boot, in the south-west on Jindo island where some of the families of the victims are still camped out in the hope of retrieving bodies.

Mr Wheen, the deputy editor of Private Eye, peered through the window of his home near Chelmsford, Essex, to find his shed ablaze, and with no hope of retrieving what he described as his "life's work".

But his credibility has been strengthened this past week by Elian's two grandmothers, who have traveled to the United States in hopes of retrieving Elian and returning home with him.

Workers spent an excruciating 14 hours of "fishing" for the broken drill bit 100 feet down the rescue shaft in hopes of retrieving and repairing it.

The player attempts to infiltrate the secret meeting place of the cult in the hopes of retrieving the amulet.

He said she dangled it over his head, so he grabbed her arm in hopes of retrieving the phone.

Still determined to get his dog back, Bart makes a late-night visit to Mr. Mitchell's home in hopes of retrieving Santa's Little Helper.