intend
verb (used with object)
to have in mind as something to be done or brought about; plan.
has been intending
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present perfect progressiveof intend (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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And it's clear that the show has been intending the Colin and Penelope storyline to come next anyway.
From Salon ● May 17, 2022
It's quite upset me, it has; and Mis-ter Cleghorne has been intending to speak to him about it.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
Something and anything being what is being then anything coming is what some one has been intending and some one having been intending something something that is something is what any one is seeing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
Of course, that's what Providence has been intending all this time.
From The Wooden Horse by Sir Hugh Walpole
A neighbor of mine who has been intending to purchase store cattle and sheep at the Chicago Stock Yards soon, asked me last night what I thought about his doing so.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
