Example sentences of "want so much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 2 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 3 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 4 | He had wanted so much to call her ‘ Mam ’ . |
| 5 | I had wanted so much to make friends at Lowood , to be good , to deserve praise . |
| 6 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 7 | She wanted so much to go to Mrs Hollidaye 's , for a long time . |
| 8 | I wanted so much to go into the house and be with them , but I knew I must stay in the hut . |
| 9 | She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to . |
| 10 | He hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive , though he wanted so much to gain her confidence ; to make her an ally in the search for the truth — if there was a truth . |
| 11 | but you wanted so much to have seen it |
| 12 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 13 | She wanted so much to belong , could not help herself . |
| 14 | She wanted so much to confide in Cissie , to share her secret , and after all Cissie was right in saying she was no longer a child . |
| 15 | She wanted so much to tell him … but no , she must n't tell anybody . |