Example sentences of "to [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was made for Barclays Bank and we are grateful to them for allowing us to adapt it for our own use .
2 Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient .
3 ‘ We are grateful to them for helping to liberate Belgium , ’ he says .
4 Many lower-level headmen received a legitimate income by retaining a proportion of the fees paid to them for issuing various licences and for other duties .
5 He takes the belt to them for nicking one minute , and then the next he 's sending them out to do it .
6 They , they are going beyond what they have to do by law , and all credit to them for doing that .
7 A WEALTHY socialite was branded ‘ callous ’ by a grieving family yesterday — because she has never said sorry to them for killing their daughter .
8 Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’
9 Good luck to them for winning international honours at that level .
10 Matey will be back soon , and — oh , what would she say to me for seducing you as I did ?
11 She got a very nice reference from the surgeon she had been with and so is most grateful to me for organising it .
12 It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them .
13 But wider , deeper and larger considerations had to be taken on board and at this stage I do n't know if any of the money will be available to me for replacing Batty if he goes . ’
14 Not only is Martin now the proud owner of a brand new set of Elite Strings , but is also ‘ eternally grateful ’ to me for featuring this bass part and naming the bassist involved , a certain Rutger Gunnarson .
15 Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches .
16 He apologised to me for paying insufficient attention while entering a strange harbour . ’
17 " I 'm right grateful to ye for gettin' me this grand dog .
18 That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems .
19 So I 'm very grateful to you for sticking with us and getting away from your traditions for this half hour .
20 I only want you to know that I 'm very grateful to you for helping me become Joe 's apprentice . ’
21 As always , I am grateful to you for helping with our recruitment leaflet , a copy of which I have enclosed .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 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 .
24 Travelling by coach you will pass through the flower carpet fields to the Franz Roozen Nurseries where you will discover the art of growing flowers and perhaps order your own bulbs which will be delivered to you for planting in the autumn .
25 Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess .
26 So you 've just got to work out some way that 'll make sense to you for remembering which way round they go and probably one good way is just write them out quite a few times think of a lot of words beginning with D.
27 ‘ Good luck to you for speaking up ! ’ someone cried .
28 Oisin said , very courteously , ‘ Since our own Chroniclers and our Poets and Story Tellers were unable to follow us into exile , it is we who should be grateful to you for creating an account of what is happening . ’
29 Get it to you for checking .
30 So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times :
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