Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.

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1	He wanted to lose it from his memory .
2	Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background .
3	She knew that Zeno wanted to preserve her from everything but himself .
4	I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else .
5	She wanted to tear them from him , to feel his naked flesh against hers , not harsh , unyielding denim .
6	How she wanted to wipe it from his face !
7	‘ It is just a pity Gary chose to go to QPR when I wanted to buy him from Sheffield Wednesday .
8	The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars .
9	I was in no mood to stop , and continued past as if I thought they wanted to film me from behind .
10	With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice .
11	She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds .
12	It was as if events had conspired to make her forget Ascot , Pendero , the fact that the most important person in her world had been clubbed to death because he wanted to save her from the fate that he had suffered .
13	I wanted to save you from being damned for all eternity . ’
14	Six six contracts all the same print so that if ever we shifted you or wanted you wanted to shift you from estate into to golf or to schools we do n't have to retrain you at all .
15	If anyone wanted to attempt it from what they 've read in this book , I would strongly recommend that they think very carefully about it before they acquire a bird .
16	So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning .
17	But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . )

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