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Meanings of have a yearning in English

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Usage of have a yearning in English
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And all the while, observe the strangeness; why, one wonders, should we have a yearning for the far away?
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
2
If you have a yearning to truly grok it, you must make a mathematical odyssey WIRED cannot equip you for.
Wired
3
If deprived of their kittens, they have a yearning for the care of some other young creatures, which they will gratify when possible.
Stories of Animal Sagacity
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Still, he had a yearning for human sympathy; he could not help it.
The Wolf's Long Howl
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Yet he still has a yearning to escape the solution.
A Study of Hawthorne
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I have always had a yearning to capture the visual.
The Irish Times
7
He had a yearning for the lost of earth's millions.
The Deacon of Dobbinsville / A Story Based on Actual Happenings
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Tonight he had a yearning, not for his wife's kisses, but for her understanding.
Five Tales
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She threw herself into it but she always had a yearning to start her own venture.
Independent.ie
10
But I had a yearning to come back to Ireland and a yearning to work in television.
The Irish Times
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He had a yearning to stop strangers in the streets and try a testimonial's effect on them.
Better Dead
12
I had a yearning for somebody Scottish.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
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I 've always had a yearning to play the cello, if these gnarled old fingers will let me.
The secret life of ceecee wilkes
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The eye had a yearning glow.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories
15
The Daily Telegraph's fashion correspondent had a yearning tone when she wrote recently about something called "country chic".
The Irish Times
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After making several films in America, I had a yearning to do something closer to home and to my working-class roots.
The Irish Times
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