Examples of 'had been wanting' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been wanting"
Desire or intention to do something that has been persistent over a period of time
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had been wanting
My daughter had been wanting a desk for a while.
That night we also went out to a restaurant we had been wanting to try.
I had been wanting to go to at least one of those bars.
It was a gift she had been wanting for many years.
I had been wanting something stronger in my teaching.
He somehow picked the one restaurant we had been wanting to go eat at.
His crime had been wanting to help his people.
I actually ended up giving mine to a friend that had been wanting to try it.
Emma had been wanting to stop for a few months.
He said that for three years his people had been wanting to make peace.
His wife had been wanting a divorce.
The polite request was exactly what Rhiannon had been wanting to hear.
I had been wanting to write a story about my own home.
Start a project that you had been wanting to tackle for a while.
We had been wanting some good seafood.
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Just a series of questions I could tell he had been wanting to ask for a long time.
I had been wanting to write about wines for a while.
I even got the snow day I had been wanting but missed a few weeks back.
I had been wanting a new coat and was in need of one.
He was doing exactly what I had been wanting him to do.
I had been wanting to use one of them on a layout.
Sometimes I tried to give up habits I had been wanting to break for some time.
I had been wanting too anyway.
His girlfriend is in Seoul, so he had been wanting to go back.
I had been wanting to see you.
For quite sometime, Siddharth had been wanting to make a film on someone.
She had been wanting it to get to go the next step.
As said on my previous post, I had been wanting some of these for so long.
I had been wanting to see them for at least four years.
For years, my wife had been wanting us to get a dog.
We had been wanting to sell our house for this very reason.
These guys are my 'neighbours' and I had been wanting to visit them for a long time.
I had been wanting to try them and this was the perfect opportunity.
In this specific case, there was a question that I had been wanting to ask Angela.
For he had been wanting to see him for a long time.
THIS is the picture I had been wanting to capture!
If this had been wanting he would have perished for ever.
Uh oh… not what I'd been hoping for, I had been wanting a boy all along.
Bill had been wanting to do this.
Give them back the title that Ferrari had been wanting since 1979.
It was something he had been wanting to experience for such a long time.
I had been wanting to eat there for a really long time.
For my part, for so long time I had been wanting to work with Pierre Huyghe.
Shaka had been wanting to go there for quite some time.
Turns out, my twin had been wanting to meet me, too.
I had been wanting to read this book for a while and finally read it.
And yet we found we had been wanting to go into those things for years.
I had been wanting to expand the drinks section of the blog for a long time.
She told us she had been wanting to be an ambassador for a long time.
I had been wanting to quit my job for some time due to some reason.
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Examples of using Had
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Had she dreamed of the garden so often
Then we knew we had the wrong guy
We had so much fun up on the mountain today
