express wish

"And in the morning you expressed a wish not to say anything more about it."

"Has either one of them expressed a wish to leave?"

He expressed his wish to put it all behind him.

The Commission has not expressed the wish to do so.

The potential form is also occasionally used to express a wish.

Your relative needn't have done anything too serious, particularly if he'd expressed a wish to go to sea.

But both expressed a wish to do so later this month after the play opens.

Let me only express the wish and hope for your invitation.

We had but to express a wish and it was granted.