She turned slightly in the hope that Joyce wouldn't notice.

He's willing to turn King's evidence on you in the hope of getting less than life.

She turned to the next cutting in the hope of finding a less lurid account of the case.

However, he soon turned to fiction in the hope of presenting his ideas to a wider public.

The more serious cases, he maintained, kept vainly turning switches on and off in the hope of finding something that worked.

I turned to the Bible again, in the hope that it would guide me.

Lee was about to turn and go back into his coach, in the hope that that would end the confrontation.

Has turned to piracy in the hope of raising money to start his new life with Elizabeth.

The only thing to do was what I did, turn at the center plane and fire a long burst in the hope of diverting him.

Footsteps on the stairs made him turn in the hope that Sue had relented.