1.   And finally, the great patron, the boss of the bunch, must have an overwhelming desire to win.

2.   He felt an overwhelming desire for a cigarette.

3.   She felt an overwhelming desire to hit him.

4.   Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.

5.   He felt an overwhelming desire for a cigarette, but Ivy was a non-smoker and he had agreed not to smoke in the car.

6.   Frau Hoflin fought an overwhelming desire to slap her daughter.

7.   An overwhelming desire to injure the plaintiff rather than to inform the public would have to be proved.

8.   She was filled with an overwhelming desire to strike back at him, and suddenly she knew exactly how she could do it.

9.   With it came an overwhelming desire to press herself closer.