Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you everyone for taking the trouble to write . |
| 2 | Pauline began the Meeting by thanking everyone for attending the important meeting before lunch and for their concern for our future . |
| 3 | You know , when you get paid twenty pounds a night for driving the minibus , and you get paid nothing for running the P A , and it takes equally long if not , if not |
| 4 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 7 | ‘ Can you blame me for holding the very opinion which you deliberately instigated ? |
| 8 | If Mephistco really is determined to punish me for defying the Review Board , they have far more efficient methods at their disposal than sending some freelance vagabond who still has boneyard dust behind her ears to do their dirty work . |
| 9 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 10 | So it 's cost me , it 's cost me for ordering the bloody thing |
| 11 | You do n't 'old it against me for pinchin' the wallet , do you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 13 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 14 | He scolds me for leaving the flat . |
| 15 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll forgive me for making the point , ’ said Calatin , ‘ but you do get the odd rebel , even these days . |
| 17 | ‘ Then you can not criticise me for making the best of my situation . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 19 | The Arab said , ‘ They blame me for guarding the food . |
| 20 | ‘ Didn't.say nothing about wanting the rest of him , though . |
| 21 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 22 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 23 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 24 | You can forgive them anything from this perspective ; you can almost forgive them for changing the clocks . |
| 25 | And they have had many letters too — thanking them for giving the people of Tawau an electricity supply that is the envy of the rest of Eastern Malaysia . |
| 26 | It was melancholy to see in the civil prisons of the metropolis , remarked Grant , men whose birth , education , manners and appearance would have fitted them for occupying the highest positions in society and consequently of proving benefactors to their species , spending no inconsiderable portion of the prime of life amid scenes of deepest degradation . |
| 27 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 29 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 30 | My solicitor will advise me about running the business , how to trade and how best to run the finances . ’ |