Example sentences of "he longed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garbett said that he thought it would be right to go to London , for the sake of the Church ; that he longed for him to come to York , for the sake of himself , he wanted Ramsey as his successor . |
| 2 | He longed for London Land , with gas lamps still flickering in the dusk , horse-drawn cabs clattering across the cobblestones , criminals no scarier than little boys scrounging for their supper . |
| 3 | Ridiculously , he longed for the attic room and the sound of ‘ The Keel Row ’ , as if they were home . |
| 4 | He longed for rest but knew that he had to keep moving , and hauling on the line , he got his hands on to the taffrail and vaulted into the cockpit . |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 6 | Sometimes , he longed for the good old days . |
| 7 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 8 | But Antony felt his life was still too indulgent and he longed for more complete mortification . |
| 9 | But the man sensed — he wanted to sense — even deeper , a disorder in the night ; he longed for it . |
| 10 | He longed for the dream to end , desperate to wake up and find himself safe in bed . |
| 11 | He longed for a drink , and ate the crust of a sandwich . |
| 12 | He suddenly remembered writing cheery lewd limericks with her on a train to Yugoslavia , and worrying about the possibility of her getting pregnant there with the child he longed for , bothering about the bad doctors and the heat . |
| 13 | He longed for her to either finish her job and go back to Germany , or do something blatantly treacherous so he would have an excuse to get rid of her . |
| 14 | This is the pencil he never had — the pencil he longed for . |
| 15 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 16 | In conversation at Corry , Johnson heard the stories he longed for — of men seeing visions , of examples of ‘ second sight ’ on Skye ; Mrs Mackinnon 's father had once met some women who , while working in a field , heard ghostly voices , signifying imminent death ; he later met two funerals at the predicted place . |
| 17 | He longed for the chance to talk to each of them in private , but saw little hope of it . |
| 18 | With an ache that almost made him bend over , he longed for the hours before evening to be done . |
| 19 | He longed for thick felt against those dancing panes of fire . |
| 20 | Herbert complained of heat and hardship , declaring that what he longed for most in the world was a marble bathroom with warm scented water and soft towels . |
| 21 | He longed for the austerities of the mission field . |
| 22 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 23 | He longed for action , yearned to be trusted with high responsibilities , to undertake prodigious feats requiring a cool head , a stout heart and nerves of steel . |
| 24 | He longed for the opportunity to destroy it . |
| 25 | How he longed for food and a drink . |
| 26 | He longed for the white spring days , at last the morning were light |