Example sentences of "thank [pron] [noun sg] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Your Royal Highness , commodores , and members of the Association , may I begin my report by thanking you Ma'am for the time you have given to our sport , for being with us at our Annual General Meeting and for the address you have just delivered .
2 A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet .
3 You can thank my wife for the date .
4 I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preaching ; their doctrines are most repulsive , and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors , in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and to do away with all distinctions , as it is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth .
5 Please thank our friend for the thought , but I prefer to stay on the ground ’ .
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