Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country . |
| 2 | It must be remembered , though , that UK institutions also face pressure on their available cash from further payments due on privatisations , rights issues , and new issues , besides perhaps wanting to build up holdings of overseas bonds and equities . |
| 3 | She much rather wanted a real policy-research unit , which of course is what she 's now got . |
| 4 | Let us promise you , you are not allowed to die any more , we are going to s , to improve our treatment , and you 're going to survive , but with daily , increasing threat to that financial dependence that you 've so keenly want , that you want for your loved ones . |
| 5 | The crime short story was not always so little wanted . |
| 6 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 7 | With his share he would be able to get the gymnasium he so badly wanted . |
| 8 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was selfish of me , I so badly wanted to put a live baby into Celia 's arms — ’ Her mouth quivered slightly and she turned away . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid I 've hurt you , so perhaps wanting you to do this will somehow make amends . |
| 11 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 12 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 13 | For a person who has been severely deprived in early childhood , envy of the baby who is receiving all the care that was and still is so much wanted can feel intolerable . |
| 14 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 15 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 16 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 17 | ‘ I so much want to try again . |
| 18 | But they so much want to help themselves . ’ |
| 19 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 20 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 21 | I so much wanted her to ask that I would n't tell her . |
| 22 | She so much wanted this to be exactly right ; and perhaps , by the time that Wayne returned , she 'd have enough of a grip on herself to ensure that it would be . |
| 23 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
| 24 | Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious , Caro thought bitterly , something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies , after all that dreadful ‘ grubbing about in the park ’ . |
| 25 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 26 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
| 27 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 28 | So only wants two and he 's got fifty six look you see |
| 29 | Feminists may , understandably , deplore a likely consequence of male intrusion into this woman 's world — wages will improve and men may take jobs hitherto only wanted by women ! |
| 30 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |