Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 2 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 3 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 4 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 5 | Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council . |
| 6 | Which reminds me you still have n't written to Geoffrey and Jean to thank them for your birthday money have we ? |
| 7 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
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| 9 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 10 | Dad , I could n't decide which card to give you for your birthday . |
| 11 | Markby thanked him for his prompt intervention and help . |
| 12 | A tiff with his nephew was no disqualification in the eyes of Charles II , who disliked William and his religion ; Ken on his return to England was made a chaplain to the King , who would remark ruefully on Sundays , ‘ Now I must go and hear little Ken rebuke me for my sins . ’ |
| 13 | Many of these secret jading substances are organic ; and their number is added to by , for instance , an observant horseman adapting something for his own use . |
| 14 | The Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai passes to David to equip him for his princely service . |
| 15 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 16 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 17 | Neil 's origins made his presence in the East End even stranger — and he had the impertinence to quiz her for her presence , when his own was just as odd . |
| 18 | Roy Clements wanted it for his collection which is thought to be the largest in Britain . |
| 19 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 20 | And yet when folk got it for their arthritis , okay ? |
| 21 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 22 | I like to think Simon paid me for my expertise . |
| 23 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 24 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 25 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 26 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 27 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 28 | Loretta chided herself for her tactlessness . |
| 29 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 30 | It is time Celtic won something for their fanatical supporters . ’ |