Example sentences of "he want [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also made him want even more to pull her close and heal her wounds with a kiss . |
| 2 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 3 | For the first time in what seemed an age to him , he wanted not only to laugh but to guffaw , like he used to do when Harry or Martin came out with something funny . |
| 4 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 5 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |