Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 2 | Her mother was n't at home , and her father wanted to see her to the car , which was parked in the street . |
| 3 | When you wanted to shift it to the Parquet . ’ |
| 4 | She knew that he wanted to beat her to the floor . |
| 5 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 6 | He wanted to take me to a disco but I said no . |
| 7 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 8 | He wanted to take me to the dance , you see . |
| 9 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 10 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |