The phrase "wanted to exclude" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The company wanted to exclude any foreign suppliers from their list of potential vendors."
He only wanted to exclude Muslims from certain countries.
Like her children did when they wanted to exclude the outside world.
The judge said he wanted to exclude "side issues" that could be prejudicial.
"We also wanted to exclude residences, fire alarms, hold-ups and panic alarms.
"It wasn't that we wanted to exclude the horses because we don't like them," he said.
Curiel said he was prepared to deny the request because Trump's attorneys didn't specify what evidence they wanted to exclude.
Plato, not much later, wanted to exclude these old portrayals of the divine from his ideal polity.
Last week the German government said it wanted to exclude sport, especially professional football, from its antitrust laws.
For example, if a seller of contact lenses had purchased the keyword contacts, it might have wanted to exclude searches for marketing contacts.
During the unusually heated exchange, the judge appeared to suggest that he had already decided to admit an incriminating statement in evidence that the defense wanted to exclude.
The initiative thus passed to those who wanted to exclude Austria from a Germany that would be under the leadership of Prussia.
