Example sentences of "thanked [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 2 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 3 | Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book . |
| 4 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 5 | Mahoney thanked her for the meal and left , stepping out onto the pavement . |
| 6 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 7 | I thanked her for the dance and Werewolf bowed deeply to her ‘ girlfriend ’ ( Oxnard , California ) , which made her day , as they say in those parts . |
| 8 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 9 | Laing was mollified , thanked him with the more formal and gracious ‘ Ashkurak ’ and withdrew . |
| 10 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 11 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 12 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 13 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 15 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 16 | When our reporter thanked him for the interview , Britain 's friendliest bus driver said : ‘ You are most welcome . ’ |
| 17 | When they reached the hotel , he walked with her to her room , and she thanked him in a rather stilted voice for a very pleasant evening . |
| 18 | He was magnificent again at Anfield and I personally thanked him after the game for what he had done . ’ |