Sentence examples for kept willing from inspiring English sources

He kept willing her to wake, to turn and open her arms to him — no such luck.

He kept willing her to wake, to turn and open her arms to him no such luck.

Mills had kept willing himself, "I can run this time; I can make this Olympic team," and Wells came to believe the same thing.

Across the net, his legs reddened by fifth-set ice treatments for cramps, his desire obvious as the epic played out, Kiefer kept willing his fickle body to hold up at the United States Open.

"You keep willing him to examine himself more closely, or just come up with better jokes," wrote the Daily Telegraph's Sameer Rahim about Stephen Fry's More Fool Me; "but in this pretty lazy effort there is precious little of the Fry we once loved", and "at £25, it is poor value".

I had to keep willing myself to stay present because a part of me couldn't get over that this young man who was so articulately discussing the film was the same kid who, as a small child, was so speech-delayed his preschool teacher told me she doubted he would ever lead a "normal" life.

Generally, though, there was a balance to Everton that kept a willing but weakened Bournemouth at arm's length.

This has allowed American medicine to attract enormous talent to its ranks, and kept doctors willing to work harder than members of almost any other profession.

Mourinho's timing in selecting either the Frenchman or the Argentine, and his ability to keep them willing while alternating between them, is part of the triumph.

Analysts in the region say both reasons point to a fundamental issue facing the markets -- a lack of trading volume that keeps otherwise willing investors at bay.

A complex, bureaucratic system designed to keep many willing workers away from eager employers is bound to breed corruption and distortion.