Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 2 | Thank you for sending me the documents being prepared for this conference . |
| 3 | Thank you for sending me the details of this extremely worrying case . |
| 4 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 5 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 6 | But thank you for giving me the hope , coat peg to hang some further comment . |
| 7 | I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so . |
| 8 | So thank you for giving me the chance to , to air that view . |
| 9 | We thank you for giving us the incentive to do this and wish you a Merry Christmas and happy New Year . |
| 10 | You and your husband are certainly doing your share for today 's ‘ concerns ’ so let us do something for you by making yours the Star Letter this month . |
| 11 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 12 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
| 13 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 14 | Wycliffe thanked her for showing them the studio . |
| 15 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 16 | Arnold Palmer had already won the US Masters and the US Open , and was looking to sweep all before him by making it the hat-trick and grabbing the jewel in the crown : the centenary Open Championship at St Andrews . |
| 17 | She wanted to please him , to see him smile , and tease her by calling himself the Master , and pretending that she was his slave . |
| 18 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 20 | From about 1205 onwards , the Plantagenets began to exert tighter control over them by granting them the constitutions known as the Etablissements de Rouen . |