Usage examples for wishing:

• Wishing to get some samples of wood I took the light cart and Tampawang also, in the hope that he would be of use. "Expedition into Central Australia" – Charles Sturt

• He wanted to tell her he hadn't meant it that way, and he found himself wishing he had. "The Eye of Wilbur Mook" – H. B. Hickey

• Although they had given him no reason for doing so, he suspected Scaith's party and felt uneasy, wishing that the night were clearer. "For the Allinson Honor" – Harold Bindloss

• She had her own reasons for not wishing to accompany the Stuart family now. "A Terrible Secret" – May Agnes Fleming