Example sentences of "want so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 2 | Paul wants so badly to look away . |
| 3 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 4 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 5 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 6 | 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 . |