Example sentences of "[was/were] grateful [prep] him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever the man had been , with his blue eyes and thinning hair , Dorothea was grateful to him for his presence . |
| 2 | The constable will wheel me , ’ he rapped out ; and Breeze was grateful to him for suggesting this arrangement . |
| 3 | Mr Dixon heaved a sigh of relief at having gained at least one point , and decided that the question of leaving school could be left to the parents and the Principal– Hank was grateful to him for his promise not to discuss either matter with anybody . |
| 4 | She was grateful to him for his solicitude and the tale came slowly out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a heartening conversation and I was grateful to him for contacting me . |
| 7 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 8 | I think she was grateful to him for bothering to show any interest in a woman with an illegitimate child on her hands . |