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Example sentences for "been wanting"

  • Do you know, Alyosha, I’ve been wanting to talk to you about it for a long time.

  • Alyosha, I’ve been wanting to ask you a long time.

  • I've been wanting to ask you for weeks now.

  • I've been wanting all my life to see Chicago," Early Ann said.

  • For twenty years I've been wanting to tell you that you're a meddlesome, tale-bearing.

  • As she went down the hall she heard Hazel say to her father, “I’ve been wanting to tell you something I have just uncovered.

  • I’ve been wanting to go back again for another look around.

  • She’s been wanting to explore these marshes a long time.

  • I've been wanting to see just how badly you'd treated the poor old boat," said Diana, following Enoch toward the shore.

  • I've been wanting to say to you for some time that I thought you had served your apprenticeship as a secretary.

  • You're just the man I've been wanting to see.

  • I've been wanting a day at Foxleigh for some time, as I've some business of my own there.

  • I shall tell the police at Foxleigh my business, and they'll be glad enough to send some men with us when they know that Levi Sharples will be there, the man they've been wanting to catch.

  • I am convinced of one thing, and that is, that my new life with her will give me just that stimulus which has somehow been wanting in all my efforts.

  • While I've been wanting to have you near me, I've lost sight of the fact that you, being young and strong, would probably want to be capering about the city alone and having a good time.

  • I'm glad to see you alone--there's something I've been wanting to say to you.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been wanting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been able; been decreed; been described; been destroyed; been doin; been employed; been established; been killed; been known; been lost; been produced; been revealed; been saying; been thinking; been through; been told; been trying; been wanting; domestic economy; flat minor; giue them; linen cloth; long known; nota bene; plant them; third voyage