Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] thank [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 2 | Erm I ought to thank everybody erm , officers , members , head groups , service groups , unionists , petitions and all who 've written to us . |
| 3 | Do you think I ought to thank them ? |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Sir Charles is coming over , I must thank him . ’ |
| 5 | Seriously , I must thank you . |
| 6 | ‘ I must thank you for this , if for nothing else , ’ she said and , placing him back in Tamar 's arms , turned and went from the room . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I must thank you for that , ’ replied the Queen of Casterbridge market rather ungratefully . |
| 8 | ‘ But I must thank you , Tao Chu . |
| 9 | ‘ I must thank you , Li Yuan . |
| 10 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 11 | ‘ I must thank you for your kindness — and you too , Mrs Wood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me help you to put your shoe back on , ’ he said gently , ‘ and I must thank you for coming to my rescue . |
| 14 | ‘ And I must thank you for consenting to see me . |
| 15 | ‘ Master Parry , ’ he said , ‘ I must thank you for granting me this interview , so strangely requested . |
| 16 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 17 | ‘ I should thank you though , ’ she said , her tone as far from gratitude as it was possible to get . |
| 18 | ’ I should thank you ’ . |
| 19 | I suppose I should thank you . ’ |
| 20 | But thank can also be followed by the bare infinitive , as in the following examples , which Jespersen ( 1940 : 289 ) qualifies as " rather vulgar " : ( 200 ) I 'll thank ye hand me the salt . |
| 21 | ( 201 ) And I 'll thank ye give me a glass of punch too , John . |
| 22 | She might 'ave 'ad carnal relations and 'im too I should n't wonder — but I 'll thank 'im to leave my relations out of it ! |
| 23 | I 'll thank him for you . |
| 24 | I 'll thank 'em all very much then . |
| 25 | ‘ And I 'll thank you not to tell your sister what to do ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 27 | Well he does to me , and I 'll thank you not to call him a bastard ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll thank you to watch your words , my new lord of Moray ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 29 | Now I 'll thank you two to get out of my house . ’ |
| 30 | " I never lie , and I 'll thank you to remember it . |