To be sure, the Cardinals wanted badly to re-sign Pujols, a perennial All-Star and the face of the franchise.
Federer wanted badly to win gold.
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It should be said here that I hadn't told Anne Marie about my past, and right then I wanted to, badly: I wanted to tell Anne Marie everything about the Emily Dickinson House and how I'd burned it, accidentally, and the people I'd killed and by the way, it wasn't the first time I'd wanted to tell her such a thing.
Perabo: No, and I wanted so badly to tell somebody, so I'm telling you.
"When I was a little boy, I wanted so badly to drive a car, " he said.
"He wanted so badly to finish the race, " said Phinney's teammate, Thor Hushovd, a former world champion.
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Although Enron's accounts remain a black box, there are growing suspicions that even its energy-trading business the jewel that Dynegy wanted so badly may not have been as impressive as it seemed.
Many lots sold under low estimates, an indicator that consignees badly wanted out.
Federal investigators badly wanted to finger Hurwitz but didn't have the goods.
Woodson said before the game he badly wanted this win, partly because the Knicks will be playing playoff-quality teams almost night in and night out.
Santos, which celebrates its centenary next year, badly wanted that crown.
Governor George Pataki got the charter schools bill through the New York legislature by tying it to a big pay increase that state lawmakers badly wanted.
At least, he says, he can take solace in knowing he had bought his two sons two new bicycles, which they had so badly wanted, before they died.
But when Chris was able to lose 40 pounds in four months to meet the requirements, she saw how badly he wanted it.
Remember how badly you wanted to get off the plane the last time someone in the next seat downloaded way too much information.
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He saw how stressed I was over my job, and knew how badly I wanted to go back to school and work in the non-profit world.
"I wanted to play again so badly and I am really surprised everything went so well, " Clijsters said afterwards.
"We are not so experienced, we wanted to win it so badly in our hearts but in the end Egyptian experience was crucial, " he said.
An aspiring college football player, "I wanted to go to Yale so badly, " he says.
Have you ever known someone who wanted something to be true so badly that they started to adopt positions and manufacture circumstances to support their own false reality?
Braly wanted him to work for WellPoint so badly that when she hired him in 2007 she did so despite a lawsuit by his previous employer Aetna over a non-compete. (Wellpoint won one round and it was later settled.) Braly promoted Fluegel to Executive Vice President.
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"I wanted to be a part of this project so badly when I was told about the adventure, " said Pirro.
This week's half-point cut went down badly with share investors, because they wanted a three-quarter-point cut and interpreted Mr Greenspan's more modest offering as a signal that he will do only what the economy requires, not what the stockmarket craves.
"Republicans wanted an ideas guy like Newt Gingrich to be president so badly that at times we even turned to Newt Gingrich, a fatally flawed candidate, " said Alex Castellanos, a CNN contributor who advised Romney's campaign in 2008.
If they had wanted, American prosecutors could have used the existing laws far more energetically to enforce justice when contractors have behaved badly.
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