Example sentences of "to [be] grateful to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 2 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 3 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 4 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 5 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 6 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 7 | Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard . |
| 8 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 9 | In the formation of the partnership and in the baby 's increasing awareness of difference , the mother imparts more than nourishment and cleanliness ; she lays the foundation of a future ability to trust and hope , to enjoy with another and to be grateful to another for that enjoyment . |
| 10 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |
| 11 | You 've reason to be grateful to me . |
| 12 | Anyway , you ought to be grateful to Neil . |
| 13 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 14 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 15 | One has to be grateful to him for intervening personally . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 17 | But the poor had cause to be grateful to the railways too , in particular for their supplies of fresh fish . |
| 18 | It was n't easy to be grateful to Nathan Bryce . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |
| 20 | ‘ It ca n't be much fun living next door to Dersingham and having to be grateful to him for having given you a living . |
| 21 | It made her feel that he wanted her to be grateful to him for marrying her . |
| 22 | JIM Boyden , another well remembered North-East MP , has particular cause to be grateful to the NHS . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to be grateful to first-time buyers . |
| 24 | The Essex team had reason to be grateful to the weather when a down-pour at the Southend Spring Festival ( 16 May ) brought crowds into the covered area just in time to watch them perform . |
| 25 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |