I really didn't mean to ask your name, for I'm not at all interested to know it.

Her face said she meant to ask later, though, and get answers.

It was a question he had been meaning to ask for quite some time.

You mean to ask, I said, what will be our answer?

"Michael, something else I meant to ask you about my mother," she began.

I meant to ask, but we got to talking of other things.

What you mean to ask for is so impossible, though.

She doesn't know I've been meaning to ask this for weeks.

"I meant to ask the other time you said that."

That was a question I had been meaning to ask now for months.