Example sentences of "you for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thank you for thank Mr , Mr can we leave your point on one side while while we address the A fifty nine .
2 So I 'm very grateful to you for sticking with us and getting away from your traditions for this half hour .
3 ‘ Your plans are quite praiseworthy , Sophie , and I respect you for sticking to them .
4 ‘ Thank you for pointing this out , ’ says Collins .
5 Excuse me for that er actually erm and I am grateful to you for pointing out really an area which is always going to cause erm a degree of difficulty .
6 Thank you for pointing this out to us .
7 It 's certainly something we 're all gon na have too er adjust too , thank you for pointing it out that the United States is going to have such enormous influence er from , from now on , we 're all going to have to get used to it and er get used to how to deal with it .
8 ‘ Thank you for hearing me out , Bill .
9 gon na give it you for microwaving if you wanted it .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Thank you for saving my life , ’ Nell heard herself saying .
12 It 's sufficient to say that Clyde thanks you for saving his family , but then finds out there 's one Demon left .
13 Movements in foreign exchange rates will affect the sterling value of the principal deposited or borrowed and your finance director will not thank you for saving £50,000 by earning interest at 1 1/2 % above UK rates if you lose £1m when the foreign currency is reconverted to sterling .
14 Dear Sir and Ladies — We would like to say thank you for saving the train and stopping a very bad accident .
15 She took you for granted , as though she 'd always known you , that was really what it was .
16 I have obviously been taking you for granted . ’
17 For taking you for granted . ’
18 ‘ I 'll never take you for granted again .
19 Look , David , thank you for helping me .
20 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 ) .
21 Blaney did n't reply , but stared hard at Dalgliesh as if assessing the sincerity of that simple statement , and then said curtly , ‘ Thank you for helping the children , ’ and lifted his son from Dalgliesh 's shoulder .
22 ‘ Thank you for helping me , ’ she said coldly .
23 I only want you to know that I 'm very grateful to you for helping me become Joe 's apprentice . ’
24 ‘ Thank you for helping the men with the hay , ’ she continued .
25 ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons .
26 As always , I am grateful to you for helping with our recruitment leaflet , a copy of which I have enclosed .
27 ‘ I can not blame you for helping your wife .
28 ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them .
29 ‘ Thank you for helping Carl , ’ says the magician .
30 ‘ Thank you for helping Mark ; I — ’
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