Example sentences of "thank [pron] for [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 2 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 3 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 4 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 5 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 6 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 7 | I would like to thank you for helping my case by removing the names of my coauthors — Jim Bull and Robert Paxton — from the article ‘ Why some insects look pretty nasty ’ ( 6 January , p 26 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Presumably she wishes to thank you for assisting her yesterday , after her accident . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to thank you for returning my earring . |
| 10 | The Duchess of York , in the region to visit one of her favourite charities , has thanked THEM for supporting her . |
| 11 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 12 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 13 | But Marwood refuses to take issue with Bassett and , instead , has thanked him for furthering his management ambitions . |
| 14 | And then she even thanked them for helping her . |
| 15 | I was summoned to the matron ( the then equivalent of director of nursing services ) who thanked me for telling her , but asked whether I was aware that the consultant was the most senior in the faculty , and probably one of the world 's most eminent ? |
| 16 | The ground staff at Edinburgh were very helpful , and when we finally boarded ( in really raw and biting cold and -2 degrees centigrade ) thanked me for having my luggage so clearly labelled as it had helped them get it to the hold doors for immediate removal at Brussels . |
| 17 | ‘ I never thanked you for taking me out today , ’ she said quietly , looking up at him . |
| 18 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 19 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |
| 20 | Bedelia was busy roasting dandelion roots , I thanked her for having us and gave her the royal wave . |
| 21 | Wycliffe thanked her for showing them the studio . |
| 22 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 23 | ‘ At the moment the team is coached by Andrew Soper from the computer department , although he wo n't thank me for telling everyone , ’ said Suzanne Isaacs of the Personnel Department at Broadgate . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's an hour before anyone 'll thank me for ringing them back , ’ he said defiantly . |
| 25 | I have seen little of her work myself , and she wo n't thank me for mentioning it . |
| 26 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She wo n't thank you for blackening her late husband 's name . ’ |
| 30 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |