I had been among the top third in my class at N.Y.U., had wanted desperately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of money and energy at the same time.

And she wanted desperately to see someone she had known back there.

Moon desperately wanted to detox from alcohol ; however, due to his fear of a psychiatric hospital, he wanted to do it at home.

He told me he had cancer of the lymph glands and he was desperately broke and he wanted to try to get something where he could have a little income.

" There is little doubt that Mahmood talked to the two Qaeda leaders about nuclear weapons, or that Al Qaeda desperately wanted the bomb ", the New York Times reported.

Meyer had desperately wanted the Liberty Memorial, a tall war memorial in Penn Valley Park overlooking downtown Kansas City, for two scenes: postcard-perfect shots of Kansas City near the beginning and a scene of Robards stumbling through the ruins.

Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.

Both the pagans from Aukštalija and the Orthodox Rus ' threatened Gediminas with death if he decides to convert, where a similar scenario also happened to Mindaugas, which he desperately wanted to avoid.

London desperately wanted to attend the University of California, Berkeley.

Louis XVIII desperately wanted Marie-Thérèse to marry her first cousin, Louis Antoine, duc d ’ Angoulême, the son of the comte d ' Artois.

Strict censorship, controlling aspect of the press, books, theater, and art, was only part of his propaganda scheme, aimed at portraying him as bringing desperately wanted peace and stability to France.

He wanted to play the Chorus in Olivier's Henry V, but the role went to Leslie Banks, and he longed desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's Oliver Twist, but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead.

After dropping out of high school, Prima desperately wanted to make it big.

Jack Palance desperately wanted the role but was never offered it.

As both Ottomans and Great Britain desperately wanted control of the Vilayet of Mosul ( of which Kirkuk was a part ), the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 failed to solve the issue.

Redmond desperately wanted and needed a rapid enactment of the Home Rule Act, and undoubtedly his words were a means to that end.

Powell desperately wanted to expand his range but Warner Bros. wouldn't allow him to do so, although they did ( mis ) cast him in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1935 ) as Lysander.

Having recently settled the vicious Castellammarese War and reorganized into a new structure, the families desperately wanted to keep themselves out of public attention.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee design was the driving force behind Chrysler's buyout of AMC ; Iacocca desperately wanted it.

It is known that 11-12 years before the events in the book, Marina desperately wanted children of her own but had difficulties conceiving.

I so desperately admired and wanted him in my picture that I persuaded myself that he could be an American Marine corps colonel.

Wallace desperately wanted to preserve segregation.

Searle recalled, " I desperately wanted to put down what was happening, because I thought if by any chance there was a record, even if I died, someone might find it and know what went on.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

It was easy to see that they were made for each other, and they knew what they wanted.

They wanted to see what his back felt like -- the General's.

He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.

I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.

The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

It was said that "... Carnegie never wanted to see or touch these bonds that represented the fruition of his business career.

** To form the passive voice: " I was told that you wanted to see me "

Schramm did this because he wanted fans to see a variety of opponents ' colors at home games.

In February 2006, UK Prime Minister Blair, acknowledging that the EPRDF has won the election, said he wanted to see Ethiopia resolve its internal problems and continue on a democratic path.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

Rabbi Chaim Noach Levin also wrote in his notes on Megillas Yuchsin that he heard directly from Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi, the head of the Rabbinical court of Lemberg, that when he wanted to go see the remains of the Golem, the sexton of the Alt-Neu Shul said that Rabbi Yechezkel Landau had advised against going up to the attic after he himself had gone up.

" When Groucho himself was on his deathbed, and a nurse came around with a thermometer, explaining that she wanted to see if he had a temperature, he responded, " Don't be silly — everybody has a temperature.

* I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek, and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said " You must not miss this movie!

These reforms not only increased investor confidence, but they were also supported by the IMF and the World Bank, however, they were not welcome widely by the Hungarians ; Bokros broke the negative record of popularity: 9 % of the population wanted to see him in an " important political position " and only 4 % were convinced that the reforms would " improve the country's finances in a big way "

He wanted to see Saddam toppled even more than the Americans did.

Hutton wanted to examine such formations himself to see “ particular marks ” of the relationship between the rock layers.

There he offered the Muslim leader a plebiscite in the Muslim areas after the war to see whether they wanted to separate from the rest of India.

Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.

The protective Mr. Bakewell wanted to see the young Frenchman established in a solid career before releasing his daughter to him.

According to one variation, Zeus had given Paris permission to set any conditions he wanted, and he requested to see the goddesses naked.

Wycliffe wanted to see his ideas actualised – his fundamental belief was that the Church should be poor, as in the days of the apostles.