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desperate
1. The ugly ones are always desperate
2. Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it
3. vengeance writ large, and that was when the company tried their one last, desperate
4. By then I was so desperate to have
5. It was a desperate attempt to deflect the direction of the conversation
6. After a moment of desperate despair he posited the alternative theory that he need not
7. Lucy swallowed, desperate to bring succour to her parched throat
8. It had gotten to the point where the generals were so desperate they were always planning to wipe out entire towns just to stop the random bombs and mayhem
9. ‘I told him that if ever I was that desperate I would let him know
10. Molly didn’t seem to think that he was desperate for kids … that’s it, isn’t it? You feel you are some sort of second class woman because you can’t give the man a child
11. “Can I have a cigarette?” I asked, surprised by my sudden boldness, but I was desperate to finish my first meal in days with that final token that would mean release from my futile fasting and a passage to one short moment in heaven
12. Theirs was a despair that comes to a life without purpose, to a soul for whom there is no revelation beyond the recognition of desperate impotence
13. I tried to engage them in conversation, desperate for them to reveal some snippet of information in an unguarded moment
14. Desperate not to miss those faint taps, but my mind drifted off again, rampaging through fantasies and memories
15. I strained at the chain, desperate to try and reach the door
16. I held my hand out, groping forward through the tears that filled my unbelieving eyes, desperate to feel the electricity of his form and field
17. In the meanwhile, the witch had withdrawn to a corner and was enjoying herself to the fullest, as I was getting more and more desperate
18. She spun webs of silver thread through the evening air, always making direct eye contact, always drawing him in towards her desperate need for love on this particular night
19. The car sat up and seemed to skim across the surface water like a steroidal jet ski, and still he pushed and pulled at the wheel, desperate for more speed
20. They are a desperate group and already tried to murder me … and yes, I am being careful
21. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree first physical evidence of cannibalism among the and told the kids that whoever got there first won the desperate population, corroborating written accounts sweet fruits
22. he fussed and apologized impatiently, desperate for pot holes,
23. desperate for a pint and fag and the put away silence of laughter
24. desperate clutching love had killed him
25. anxious to be the joking hero, desperate to be sleeping in tattooed arms
26. desperate to avoid the twist and turn
27. Daniel’s voice was almost desperate in tone, he sighed deeply, millions have died, only a handful of us left
28. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket
29. (pause) It will be done (almost a whisper) now… (a desperate scream) Now! (holds the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger
30. Joris hung around for the ceremony and then went across, desperate to get away
31. The desperate cravings to get wasted first thing upon waking were controllable now
32. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat
33. The desperate young couple slowly became aware that they had an audience
34. She'd made a name for herself as a woman of honour, desperate to help her community gain self-respect and sometimes mere existence
35. I was becoming scared and desperate
36. She waved her hand at the figure, desperate to shoo the person away, and continued to spill bitter tears upon her red flushed cheeks, but the figure came towards her, knelt at her feet and held her hands
37. Mistress Fate heard this desperate plea and within a week Miss Jones found herself facing a very new and challenging situation, for which she was entirely unprepared
38. The natives were so desperate for metal they went down in seven hundred feet of water with nothing but hand pumps and re-floated the crashed shuttlecraft to scavenge it
39. How delicious our goal looked from where we paused to fan ourselves desperate for the slightest breeze
40. After his experience with Rose, Tom drifted through a series of ever more desperate relationships
41. Each desperate contestant was made to stand in front of the panel of judges on a spot marked with a silver star, and almost without fail the judges poured torrents of scorn and condescension down upon their heads
42. To the grave and desperate disappointment of both the young man and his mother, the young ladies behaved perfectly because they had all been brought up properly by respectably stage struck parents, each of them agreeing immediately to the request for a bit of a scrub at the washtub
43. The young man was, by now, emotionally drained, having lost count of the number of dates and encounters that he’d endured in his desperate quest to find marital happiness
44. ' I said, in a desperate
45. She withdrew from her mother and no matter how desperate the look in her mother’s alcohol skewed eyes, she would not be drawn back into the bosom of her mother’s awful love, which is why, as the days passed and the new song hit the headlines and the airwaves, the only person who knew anything of it or enjoyed its strange and comforting melodies was Lucy, who saw no reason to share her comfort with anyone else
46. At five o’clock she could bear the suspense no longer and switched on the television, keeping the volume down as low as she could, desperate to find out what was happening
47. 'Whatever,' I said, sitting on the pillow as a desperate measure
48. streaked windows forced their liver spotted hands to desperate
49. The poor dog was so pre-occupied with his desperate search for
50. her feelings of compassion for this desperate creature that she quite
