Examples of 'had long wanted' in a sentence

Meaning of "had long wanted"

had long wanted - This phrase indicates that there was a desire or wish for something that persisted over an extended period. It implies a sense of longing or anticipation for a particular outcome or goal, suggesting that the desire had been present for a significant amount of time

How to use "had long wanted" in a sentence

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had long wanted
Had long wanted to come and see you.
The mole had long wanted.
I had long wanted to explore it.
For the older films it is usually titles that I had long wanted to see released.
Willcox had long wanted to be an astronaut.
He also took up painting, which he had long wanted to do.
Seemed like he had long wanted to be with us though.
Now, she finally had taken the step that she had long wanted.
He had long wanted to have a computer.
Wong was enthusiastic about the idea, claiming he had long wanted to make a costume drama.
Nicholas had long wanted to take control of the army.
As Tony mentioned earlier, he had long wanted to get into directing.
She had long wanted to retire from the world.
Gunther, the Bergevins ' new physician, had long wanted to be a family doctor in her hometown.
I had long wanted to interpret the meandering nature of water.

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Anyway Dad and mum had long wanted to bring me to the zoo.
I had long wanted to make a film about a couple and the difficulties of living together.
The Honduran elite had long wanted to break up the company.
I had long wanted to develop a piece of music about steve Reich 's phase shift principle.
Well, today I wanted … had long wanted to visit him.
We had long wanted to play together and this time it was given to us.
Pope Francis had long wanted to visit Japan.
We had long wanted to ask but we had not found enough courage to do so.
The mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the badger.
I had long wanted to go to the Wind River Range.
Butcher said she had long wanted to make cheese as a commercial undertaking.
Hui had long wanted to produce a movie in China.
I think Chris had long wanted to do the aerial spectacular.
I had long wanted to visit Casa Batlló and the Egyptian museum.
But researchers had long wanted to create antibodies in the lab to tackle various diseases.
He had long wanted to visit the Grand Shrines.
The Austrians had long wanted to add the Balkans to their own empire.
He had long wanted to return to Qingyuan City to check on Liu Yang.
But he had long wanted to meet President Putin.
I had long wanted to make a space like that '.
The apostle Paul had long wanted to visit Rome and preach the Gospel there.
I had long wanted to go for a long walk in the " far north " of Thailand.
The FBI had long wanted to get inside an encrypted phone firm.
Nomo had long wanted to play in the MLB.
Fedor had long wanted to make a film about Chernobyl.
Lord Bao had long wanted to recruit them but they kept declining.
I had long wanted to travel to Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Indeed, he had long wanted to a full-length feature.
She had long wanted to create a work around it, as an act of " homage . ".

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