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Simple sentences
Tom wants desperately to believe that what Mary said is true.
Tom is desperately lonely.
He's desperately trying to make up for the delay.
She needed the money desperately.
You desperately need a vacation.
Tom wants desperately to do the right thing.
Tom desperately tries to escape his responsibility.
She needed money desperately.
Tom needs the money desperately.
Mary was desperately in love with Tom.
I desperately need to touch up my makeup.
Tom fell desperately in love with her.
We desperately need drinking water.
I desperately need a car.
Tom tried desperately to get Mary's attention.
Tom had fallen desperately in love with her.
Volunteers are desperately needed.
Tom desperately needed that.
Tom fell desperately in love with Mary.
Tom needed money desperately.
Tom desperately needed money.
I desperately need your help.
Movie subtitles
Bishop Donahue said it's because I have no self-esteem and desperately want to fit in with by my peers.
It's going to somebody who desperately needs it.
That she had a family that was desperately seeking her out?
I wanted money desperately.
I was desperately in need of a certain big sum of money.
A desperately dull place, I warn you.
This girl's desperately ill.
I wanted you. I wanted you desperately. but I didn't think you wanted me.
I've tried so desperately to match your bravery, but.
I suppose you've had a look at the pro, and he's desperately handsome. and you've conceived a schoolgirl crush on him.
Sometimes, you know, those little bottles contain demons. that have a way of popping out at you. just as you're trying most desperately to forget.
With the coming of the Second World War many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully or desperately toward the freedom of the Americas.
She's desperately ill.
You see, we both knew how desperately we loved each other.
Meanwhile, back at the inn, the mysterious stranger is trying desperately to find a solution to an aspect of his experiment, one of many, that we're not too clear about as yet.
Desperately.
I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.
You've learned nothing from him in spite of all your torture otherwise you wouldn't be trying so desperately to collect the four sections of the bomb sight.
She selects her victims from those desperately in need of money. Persuades them to pawn their insurance policies with her various accomplices and then kills them, by means of lycosa carnivora.
My surmise is that Giles Conover has lost the Borgia Pearl and is trying desperately to get it back just as we are.
Listen, you don't realize that Daniel is desperately in love with you.
I wonder. there was something he was desperately anxious to get.
The other part clung desperately to the ideals that have driven him all his life.
Manuela, even a man desperately in love has the instinct of self-preservation.
Oh, and worse, she's in love with another man but desperately.
I need money desperately.
But it does seem so desperately hard.
He was probably desperately unhappy.
SHE'S-SHE'S DESPERATELY ILL.
I wanted you desperately. but I didn't think you wanted me.
And we desperately need money to pay the hospital expense.
I've maneuvered desperately to keep that from falling to the creditors.
I suppose you've had a look at the pro, and he's desperately handsome, and you've conceived a schoolgirl crush on him.
Sometimes, you know, those little bottles contain demons that have a way of popping out at you, just as you're trying most desperately to forget.
News and current affairs
Soldiers cannot keep peace among desperately hungry people.
In the Horn of Africa, there is no leader of his stature who could ensure the stability and strong governance that the region so desperately needs.
Stall speed is a terrifying risk for an economy like that of the US, which desperately needs to grow robustly.
What is desperately needed is better policymaking.
Demand growth at a pace that in any previous decade would have been seen as highly satisfactory is suddenly desperately insufficient, and Bush is being blamed (with some justice) for the slack labor market that has resulted.
Serbia is poor and Western aid is desperately needed.
It is a deal that can only have been agreed to as the price of Russian support for Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma as he desperately seeks to extend his presidency beyond the two-term limit that he faces this year.
It is desperately important that the world's governments now recommit to raise the budget of the WHO, as one of the most important steps available in the cause of global development and justice.
Last but not least, the Chinese authorities desperately need to maintain the country's breakneck economic growth in order to preserve the Communist Party's legitimacy.
A liberal-democratic China may not come soon, but after Charter 08 no one can deny that many Chinese desperately want it.
What they won't see, of course, are the desperately low living standards of China's teeming millions, especially the rural poor.
The Bretton Woods system institutionalized America's geopolitical supremacy, leaving the old imperial power, the UK, to step aside - a step that it took graciously, if a little desperately, given its grave postwar economic situation.
But the prospects of success are desperately dim.
These institutions knew, or they should have known, that their loans and aid was not going to help the country's desperately poor people.
Yet time is not the answer for economies desperately in need of the structural repairs of fiscal consolidation, private-sector deleveraging, labor-market reforms, or improved competitiveness.
Faced with the loss of the nation's central idea and desperately in search of a new one, millions of Argentines have become interested in their history.
In return, the Asian institutions would have a chance at the rich returns they desperately seek but cannot receive at home.
After ignoring Latin America for years, President George W. Bush is desperately trying to improve hemispheric relations.
At the moment, Europe's banks desperately need to shore up their balance sheets.
The EU's increasing income inequality misallocates the purchasing power that its economy desperately needs for growth and employment.
Each campaign is now desperately trying to gauge the impact of the financial crisis on these battleground states.
Zimbabwe's military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field's immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.