Sentence examples for have a desperately from inspiring English sources

England have a desperately close LBW shout against Lara turned down by the taciturn Darrell Hair, who looks like the Gene Hackman of umpires.

care: you have a desperately sick patient, and in order to have a chance of saving him you have to make sure that a hundred and seventy-eight daily tasks are done right — despite some monitor's alarm going off for God knows what reason, despite the patient in the next bed crashing, despite a nurse poking his head around the curtain to ask whether someone could help "get this lady's chest open".

Gable and Lancaster's relentless, humorless feuding has a desperately bitchy quality; these guys are so desperate to win the title of Top Man they're going to get everybody killed.

He had a desperately unhappy childhood, dominated by his father's depressive moods.

It was clear that, beneath the comedy spots and stripes, they had a desperately serious purpose.

He had a desperately sad life, though: he had an abusive father, his brother killed himself, and so did one of his partners.

The BBC, obviously, went along with the hype, realising that it had a desperately unlikely hit on its hands, and has played it marvellously: last year's final pulled in a record audience of more than 13 million viewers.

Knol has a desperately dull home page with text links to articles about Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Evolving Trends in Laparoscopic Surgery, and so on, and most of the featured articles are very academic.

Deposed champions Manchester City have had a desperately disappointing season in defence of their title, as they did the year after Roberto Mancini's team claimed the crown for the first time in 44 years in 2011-12.

And the young Spaniard had a desperately uncertain first half, mixing good stops from Yaya Sanogo, Thomas Vermaelen and Oxlade-Chamberlain with a stubborn - not to mention very hazardous -determination to punch everything, including one anxious moment when he turned Bacary Sagna's cross on to the bar.

With the ancient Bud Selig's retirement, the league finally has a desperately needed changing of the guard in the commissioner's office.