Example sentences of "longed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie was astonished at how attached Bill became to Lizzie , as if Lizzie was the daughter they 'd longed for . |
| 2 | But , instead of the freedom and ease they had longed for , all they felt was emptiness where once all was tension and work . |
| 3 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 4 | On those weekend trips to the garden centre , have you ever longed for a car that is stylish , luxurious and spacious ? |
| 5 | ‘ Armadilloes are very happy with this government , ’ he wrote , ‘ Not only humans longed for liberation . |
| 6 | Part of the difficulty was that the cause , so sentimentally longed for , could not be expressed in sentimental terms . |
| 7 | In the words of Stephanie Marshall of the University of York , citizenship had become ‘ Political Education 's longed for ‘ place in the sun ’ . |
| 8 | No amount of modification to any of the existing faiths could ever have the so greatly longed for effect , only a completely new religious concept based on a credible ‘ god ’ can be successful . |
| 9 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 10 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 11 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 12 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 13 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 14 | Longed for a spot in the country , |
| 15 | She was a phantom , a shadow of what he had longed for . |
| 16 | In the latter Eärendil is , not a Redeemer , but an Intercessor , unlike the true Messiah in that it is not his own sacrifice which persuades the Valar to change the sad history of Middle-earth , but still ‘ a man of sorrows , and acquainted with grief ’ , hailed by Eönwë with eagle-like ambiguity ( see p. 151 above ) as ‘ the looked for that cometh at unawares , the longed for that cometh beyond hope ’ . |
| 17 | I remember it was a beautiful spring and I longed to travel , longed for company . |
| 18 | For many who in the early twentieth century longed for the ‘ regeneration ’ of Spain , the phrase ‘ oligarchy and caciquismo ’ summed up the country 's ills . |
| 19 | A week before the wedding the sickness stopped and my mother said it had been psychological , she said that ‘ deep down inside ’ — I 'm quoting her-I longed for marriage and once I knew I was really going to get married I stopped worrying . ’ |
| 20 | Political and social revolution was in the air and Koreans of all political persuasions longed for unity . |
| 21 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 22 | Since adolescence I have longed for its liberation . |
| 23 | New Year 's Eve in those early years had possessed a dull religious sheen , a pewter glimmer , which by much effort and polishing and dedication of the will could bring her a little light , a little hope , a little perseverance : but she had longed for the flames and the candles , the cut glass and the singing . |
| 24 | Erm these babies are longed for ! |
| 25 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 26 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |
| 27 | Oh , Harry , if you knew how I 've longed for this , ’ she said in a breathless little voice . |
| 28 | The Englishman longed for her death , Kit even found himself praying sometimes for it . |
| 29 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 30 | ‘ Natasha started dancing at three and she 's always longed for her lessons . |