Example sentences of "for [verb] [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 2 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 3 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 4 | I have to thank you , Jenny , for saving me from an almost certain accident . |
| 5 | By the end of this scene , however , Terentia expresses fulsome gratitude to Dycarbas for saving her from an uncle who had wanted to steal her inheritance . |
| 6 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 7 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 8 | Thanks for providing me with an excellent article for the summer edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 9 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |