Example sentences of "[modal v] thank [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 2 | Only a man could say such cruel things , ’ and then , belatedly , remembering her manners , which her mama had so often told her she was always forgetting , ‘ But I must thank you for taking me in . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me help you to put your shoe back on , ’ he said gently , ‘ and I must thank you for coming to my rescue . |
| 4 | ‘ And I must thank you for consenting to see me . |
| 5 | ‘ Master Parry , ’ he said , ‘ I must thank you for granting me this interview , so strangely requested . |
| 6 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's an hour before anyone 'll thank me for ringing them back , ’ he said defiantly . |
| 8 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeah , the rats 'd thank us for getting rid of a human , ’ he went on . |
| 10 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 11 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 12 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |
| 13 | I know we can thank them for showing some tennis , unlike ITV which does n't show any at all , but they do n't show half as much as would all like . |