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211. He saw that all the company had dismounted, and were fighting a desperate battle against the pack that surrounded them.

212. Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic.

213. He made two desperate attempts to recoup by staging the kind of garish spectacle that had once lured customers to the Falls.

214. By 1980, the Midland was so desperate to satisfy its international ambitions, it would have agreed to almost anything.

215. Couples desperate not to have a child sometimes fail to use birth control.

216. Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady, way back in my desperate youth.

217. At last her clutch on him became less desperate and her shivers less violent.

218. Like a bulldog it refuses to let go, even when savagely attacked by the desperate victim.

219. Far from bumping along on the bottom, desperate for money, it is in good heart.

220. But Tory backbenchers are desperate for him to end the drift.

221. One motive, of course, was his desperate need for some congenial company.

222. He ate his breakfast at the Grill every morning of his life, desperate to get away from that barracuda.

223. Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.

224. The only instant adverse side effect is a desperate thirst, stiff aching muscles and a loss of appetite.

225. Riven hung on to his mount's bridle grimly whilst it bucked and reared in a desperate effort to get away.

226. Behind those hard faces and vacant eyes are injured people who have been too afraid and too desperate too long.

227. Alan Soden told the court that he caught the fish because his family was desperate for food.

228. In her desperate search for clues, Joan visited clairvoyants across the country.

229. Students desperate to leave home may find themselves in a worse situation than the one they left.

230. "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton 

231. The hospital's situation was so desperate that there was only one small bag of drugs to share between 300 sick children.

232. After he had clambered across he searched again, feeling desperate.

233. Prosecutors say it was around this time that Kim conceived a fraud scheme in a desperate attempt to save his conglomerate.

234. Then he buried himself in his endless technical reports, in a desperate last-minute assault on the usual backlog.

235. That's where Desperate Dan, spying on the proceedings from a safe, dark alley, had got it wrong.

236. Terry seemed to regard it with awe and wonder, Ellie thought it was desperate, morbid, the stuff of nightmares.

237. Desperate not to have to overtake(sentencedict.com), he'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously.

238. I even became so desperate that I thought of returning to corporate life.

239. Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company.

240. So desperate has the situation become that 18 estates have banded together and called in Dave Dunn.