Example sentences of "thank you for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well nobody thanks you for doing without that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I wish to thank you for listening to what was ‘ said ’ to you and for your integrity in replying publicly and as you did . |
| 4 | ‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Finally , I would wish to thank you for publicising the efforts being made by peace and reconciliation groups in Craigavon , and Northern Ireland generally ; and trust you will continue to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ Presumably she wishes to thank you for assisting her yesterday , after her accident . ’ |
| 9 | " I 'd like to thank you for stopping by . |
| 10 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to thank you for returning my earring . |
| 12 | I 'd like to thank you for agreeing to do this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd like to thank you for coming . ’ |
| 14 | I would like to thank you for coming into the studio today , and I 'm sure we 'll receive a lot of letters from our listeners about what 's been said . |
| 15 | I would like to thank you for interviewing Jim Marshall on the thirtieth anniversary of the company which bears his name . |
| 16 | ‘ Something like that … though I would n't have thanked you for saying so . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I never thanked you for taking me out today , ’ she said quietly , looking up at him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I do thank you for stopping and not running poor Nellie over . |
| 22 | She wo n't thank you for blackening her late husband 's name . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 25 | ‘ Your God would not thank you for throwing away your life . |
| 26 | Can I thank you for sharing with us the the example of the concentration , that you put so much in such a short time . |
| 27 | ‘ And I must thank you for consenting to see me . |
| 28 | ‘ If she 's so keen to save a spot of money then she wo n't thank you for cheating her of eight grand . ’ |
| 29 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 30 | I do thank you for finding me - " |