Example sentences of "thank you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 2 | Well nobody thanks you for doing without that . |
| 3 | nobody thanks you for it . |
| 4 | But I want to begin this morning by thanking you on behalf of the group , because all of us owe the G M B an enormous debt of gratitude none more than myself . |
| 5 | I subsequently wrote to you thanking you for this most generous offer and explaining that we wanted to use them as prizes in a raffle but were unable to proceed at that time . |
| 6 | I ca n't think of anything else so I 'll finish by thanking you for all your hard work . |
| 7 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 8 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 9 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 10 | Thanking you in anticipation . |
| 11 | Thanking you in anticipation . |
| 12 | ‘ And I want to thank you on Hilda 's behalf . |
| 13 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 15 | If you can afford an environmentally friendly G-registered runabout , then the flora , fauna and children of the British Isles will have a lot to thank you for . |
| 16 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 17 | I would like to thank you for helping my case by removing the names of my coauthors — Jim Bull and Robert Paxton — from the article ‘ Why some insects look pretty nasty ’ ( 6 January , p 26 ) . |
| 18 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 19 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 20 | Nick , I wanted to thank you for last night . |
| 21 | I would like to thank you for interviewing Jim Marshall on the thirtieth anniversary of the company which bears his name . |
| 22 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 23 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 24 | On behalf of the Society , and particularly those involved in medical work , I write to thank you for your kind gift of £391 . |
| 25 | We would like to thank you for your support and interest in the medical work of the Society as demonstrated in your gift of £401.88 . |
| 26 | Beryl and Peter Benyon acknowledge their thanks and say : ‘ We wish to thank you for your great support and for being part of our work . |
| 27 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 28 | I would first like to thank you for your ‘ Singer Specials ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 30 | I wanted to thank you for the wonderful pair of walking boots — a prize from the February issue of Outdoor Action . |