Example sentences of "i longed " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through this conversation he had the impression that Frank no longer sneered ; and as he went back to Liverpool he was sure that he was more tolerant and sympathetic and ‘ was willing to grant that there was some sense in some of the things which I longed for him to share ’ . |
| 2 | How I longed for this , inspired by the word ‘ flatter . ’ |
| 3 | I missed my parents ; I longed for my home and my sisters . |
| 4 | As a teenager , I longed to have a curtain of hair like Paul McCartney 's or John Lennon 's . |
| 5 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 6 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |
| 7 | Now , as I read our poem over and over again , I longed to see him , to share it with him , to show him I still loved him , however impossible my love might be . |
| 8 | ( Secretly , however , I longed for my own perch back ; I could not seem to settle anywhere . |
| 9 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 10 | How I longed to be able to reveal to the world that in the picture I depicted … a lighthouse . |
| 11 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 12 | ‘ I longed for him to say ‘ Do n't do this ’ but all he would say was ‘ Wonderful ’ . |
| 13 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 14 | The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle . |
| 15 | I longed for some . |
| 16 | I longed to speak , but found absurdly that I was shy . |
| 17 | But as November 11th came , I longed to be at the City Temple again for the fine organ music , especially by Walford Davis . |
| 18 | You know how I longed — and long still , for that matter — to be an actress . |
| 19 | When I was young I longed to leap aboard every horse who pranced past . |
| 20 | I longed to know what Eva made of things , what she thought of Jamila , say , and the marriage of Changez . |
| 21 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 22 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
| 23 | I longed for the emotional and social cushion of the hareem which would have softened the impact of the days . |
| 24 | I remember it was a beautiful spring and I longed to travel , longed for company . |
| 25 | Having been wintered out on the heterosexual plains of Ipswich I longed for the company of other dykes . |
| 26 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 27 | I longed to feel the great buzzard 's weight on my fist . |
| 28 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 29 | Fish featured largely in our diet during our stay , and being a keen fisherman I longed to get offshore and try for some of the bigger game fish . |
| 30 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |