Example sentences of "long for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 2 | We are all special to him , and he longs for each of us to enter into the space and privileges of his home . |
| 3 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
| 4 | He longs for what he can never really have . |
| 5 | Born in a Preston slum , and upbraided as ‘ a worldly little devil ’ by his harridan mother because he longs for food and warmth , his acute fear of being thought worldly dominates his subsequent life , causing him to be misunderstood and exploited . |
| 6 | There are times , frankly , when one longs for a video camera . |
| 7 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 8 | Art Complaining agit-properly Rose Jennings longs for fury and tenderness , instead of sentiment , in anti-war art |
| 9 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 10 | The narrator , Richard Papen , longs for entry to the college 's charmed but destructive inner circle — a clique of privileged students fired by their classics professor 's admiration for the ancient Greek mysteries of bucolic visions and violence . |
| 11 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 12 | He feels his faithful services are not valued , and he longs for death . |
| 13 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 14 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |
| 15 | One longs for the unity of the Chicago International Art Exposition ( CIAE ) , America 's leading art fair during the boom years of the 1980s . |
| 16 | The themes centred around the lone legionnaire who has given up his past for the Legion , yet still longs for his former life and forgotten loves , his home and his happiness . |
| 17 | ( One longs for the Germans to give up trying to make facsimiles of other people 's cheeses . |
| 18 | Perhaps the crisis in public housing gives concrete evidence of something the Left longs for — the marriage of representative democracy through the institutions of the state with tenants and residents exercising direct democracy in defining and managing the community 's homes . |
| 19 | One longs for a machete to cut a way through . |
| 20 | Pavel levers himself into his car , forcing movement out of a body that longs for sleep more than anything else . |
| 21 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 22 | ‘ How one longs for the days of Bishop Heber sometimes ! ’ |
| 23 | It is a bird spirit that longs for freedom . |
| 24 | The quickening presence of the love he longs for seems conspicuous by its absence , a feeling emphasised by the strong-stressed , medially-stopped half-line . |
| 25 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 26 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 27 | In any case , JR longs for the chance to try some jazzy ties . |
| 28 | I long for the protection of a written constitution like that of the US with its First Amendment , which elevates freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse . |
| 29 | So while the Paseo feel safe and secure through corners , you long for the poise and quick reflexes of a CRX . |
| 30 | I long for Anglican churches to be more confident in their expression of the Good News . |