Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [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 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 9 | She had been rather grateful to him at the time . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was terribly grateful to him at the moment and it would n't require any effort on his part . |
| 13 | I 'm terribly grateful to you for all your help , but we 'll just be friends tonight , OK ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’ |
| 16 | We just want to share with you how God has been so faithful to us in many ways . |
| 17 | Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and not sure about Friday evening and er she said then she 'll have trouble getting the money over that 's out of them , why the redundancy because been there over two year , so I presume redundancy or holidays or both so Sue said to her well if they were so good to you in the past , but that ai n't the point is it ? |
| 18 | But he was so good to us at first — I never dreamed how he 'd change — ’ |
| 19 | And we had the fantastic help in from South Wales , most thos terribly good er people were terribly good to us in organizing er different things . |
| 20 | No , no , the red 's not terribly helpful to you at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell Lady Franklin , ’ Gould instructed his wife in a letter to Hobart , ‘ I have her little page with me , he is a most interesting little fellow , throws the spear and waddy with the utmost dexterity and [ is ] extremely useful to me in the bush , an eye like a hawk discovers birds nests & eggs in a most astonishing manner . ’ |
| 22 | He is extremely useful to us in that role . |
| 23 | I am personally indebted to her for her help in indexing my text book on bookselling . |
| 24 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 25 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |
| 26 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 27 | But the individual body , so familiar to us on our planet , did not have to exist . |
| 28 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 29 | She said she slept in it because she worked on a computer that was only available to her at night and there was no point in going home after 2am . |
| 30 | Sister Lovejoy was ever so kind to me over it . ’ |