Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 3 | And I want to hear it from you . |
| 4 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 5 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 6 | Yes , but I want to send it from town . |
| 7 | ‘ You want to reclaim it from the people that have been misused it . |
| 8 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 9 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 10 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 11 | For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number . |
| 12 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 13 | Stephanie watched Daniel , wanting to protect him from Marcus . |
| 14 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 15 | And he did want to hear it from her mouth . |
| 16 | I had often wondered this myself , but I did n't want to hear it from her . |
| 17 | That is possible actually , that he would want to keep it from his neighbourhood . |
| 18 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection . |
| 20 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 21 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 22 | Do you want to take him from me ? |
| 23 | He wanted to lose it from his memory . |
| 24 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |
| 25 | She knew that Zeno wanted to preserve her from everything but himself . |
| 26 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 27 | She wanted to tear them from him , to feel his naked flesh against hers , not harsh , unyielding denim . |
| 28 | How she wanted to wipe it from his face ! |
| 29 | ‘ It is just a pity Gary chose to go to QPR when I wanted to buy him from Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 30 | 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 . |