Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 2 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 9 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On behalf of the Society , and particularly those involved in medical work , I write to thank you for your kind gift of £391 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I wish to thank you for listening to what was ‘ said ’ to you and for your integrity in replying publicly and as you did . |
| 17 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 18 | Nick , I wanted to thank you for last night . |
| 19 | I wanted to thank you for the wonderful pair of walking boots — a prize from the February issue of Outdoor Action . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to thank you for returning my earring . |