Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] thank [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I must thank you for that , ’ replied the Queen of Casterbridge market rather ungratefully . |
| 3 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 4 | ‘ I must thank you for your kindness — and you too , Mrs Wood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me help you to put your shoe back on , ’ he said gently , ‘ and I must thank you for coming to my rescue . |
| 7 | ‘ And I must thank you for consenting to see me . |
| 8 | ‘ Master Parry , ’ he said , ‘ I must thank you for granting me this interview , so strangely requested . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I 'll thank him for you . |
| 11 | No I 'll thank you for the confidence no . |
| 12 | One of these fine days , when he 's my uncle , I would thank him for this . |
| 13 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 14 | Are you afraid I will thank you for your generous gesture towards my mother ? ’ |
| 15 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 16 | If this is not easily available , nobody will thank you for the error ! |
| 17 | ‘ You may thank me for the breakfast , ’ McAllister said , sitting down to attack her own meal with vigour , ‘ but the weather — now that , alas , is beyond me . |
| 18 | ‘ Then you must thank her for the invitation and suggest a postponement . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 20 | ‘ Take off those shoes , you 'll thank me for it later . |
| 21 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 22 | You 'll thank me for this later . |
| 23 | " You 'll thank me for this later , lads . |
| 24 | You 'll thank me for this ! ’ |
| 25 | Do you a lot of good , you 'll thank me for it one day . |
| 26 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 27 | I know we can thank them for showing some tennis , unlike ITV which does n't show any at all , but they do n't show half as much as would all like . |
| 28 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 29 | ‘ They 'll thank me for it one day : pelvic control is useful when you 're having a baby . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |