Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't let's moan about , I mean thank you for your point , I 'm not putting you down , but let , let's sort of get up there and , and go for it if we , if we feel we can contribute . |
| 2 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 3 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 7 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 10 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 11 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 12 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 13 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 14 | Just thought I 'd told you for cos from the erm , title i , you would n't think it was about the navy . |
| 15 | done it , she said I was reading it here and I meant to ask you for the , she said , anyway when he come back I said have you found them out , alright , he said I 've had a go he said |
| 16 | You see , I kept blaming you for everything , but that was n't fair , a lot of it was my fault too , and I might make the same mistakes all over again , and I could n't bear that . |
| 17 | ‘ I do thank you for stopping and not running poor Nellie over . |
| 18 | ‘ I do thank you for your courtesy , Master MacAirth . ’ |
| 19 | " No it has n't and I do thank you for your help . |
| 20 | I do thank you for finding me - " |
| 21 | ‘ But I do thank you for your hospitality , sir . |
| 22 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 23 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
| 24 | When I said thank you for that . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've dittoed you for why |
| 27 | I 've dittoed you for why , mm is there any thing you fancy ? , look at tomorrow 's pick |
| 28 | There 's the background there I 've met you for for ten minutes . |
| 29 | oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus |
| 30 | I 've known you for years . |