Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John . |
| 2 | She got a very nice reference from the surgeon she had been with and so is most grateful to me for organising it . |
| 3 | I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly . |
| 4 | Charles and I are so sorry to miss you and most grateful to you for guarding our chattels while we gallivant round Italy . |
| 5 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 6 | I understand an and appreciate wh what you 're saying and most grateful to you for that , I think wha what you 're , Neil is saying is is that with we must make sure the time , that this main strategic planning he has to look at , this very important issue , allows sufficient time for mature consideration |
| 7 | " I 'm right grateful to ye for gettin' me this grand dog . |
| 8 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 10 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 11 | She had been rather grateful to him at the time . |
| 12 | She allowed her eyes to smile into his — perhaps he was a little fond of her after all ? |
| 13 | The system of washing here is rather different from ours in England … |
| 14 | Personally , I 'm mostly interested in it as a mineral specimen . |
| 15 | By sheer political and economic weight , she would be able to exert sufficient influence on countries economically dependent on her to be sure of dominating majority voting , or by refusing to accept certain policies . |
| 16 | Well do n't you think that it 's really rather improper for you to be doing this ? |
| 17 | The professional in Clarissa could be altogether different from her off stage manner . |
| 18 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 19 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 20 | There 's a disgusting dirty old man with a taste for corporal punishment ( ’ I was so used to it at Westminster School ’ ) and not one but two splendid fools . |
| 21 | Very few of them , however , visit the backward , disadvantaged areas of these countries , and it is even less usual for them to be asked to share their own experience with those who are working there and comment critically on what they are doing . |
| 22 | Because I have n't felt so sorry for her for years . |
| 23 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 24 | Why then is there so little of it in our doom-laden age ? |
| 25 | I want to play cards , and there are only eight of us in the house today . |
| 26 | Moreover , that focal point could be established as a definition of ‘ god ’ sufficiently broad for it to be accepted as the believed-in entity covering all the diverse forms of the totems credited with the power to heal . |
| 27 | She was terribly grateful to him at the moment and it would n't require any effort on his part . |
| 28 | I 'm terribly grateful to you for all your help , but we 'll just be friends tonight , OK ? ’ |
| 29 | Against him , after all , was a force now only two-thirds of his in size , and lacking the Normans . |
| 30 | I know how much thought and care you have expended on this wonderful work of art which is such a joy to look at , and I , as the proud possessor of this house , can never be sufficiently grateful to you for having given so much of your time in order to give me pleasure . |