verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a letter of thanks/introduction/complaint etc
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I finally got a letter of apology from the company.
express your thanks/gratitude/appreciation (= say thank you to someone, in a speech )
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On behalf of the team, I’d like to express our appreciation for all your efforts.
extend...thanks
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I’d like to extend my thanks to all the catering staff.
grateful thanks
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Our grateful thanks go to all who participated.
I’m fine (thanks/thank you) spoken (= used when telling someone that you do not want any more when they offer you something )
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‘More coffee?’ ‘No, I’m fine , thanks.’
I’m fine (thanks/thank you) spoken (= used when telling someone that you do not want any more when they offer you something )
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‘More coffee?’ ‘No, I’m fine , thanks.’
No thanks
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‘Do you want any more?’ ‘ No thanks .’
say thank you
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I just wanted to say thank you for being there.
sincere thanks/thank you/gratitude
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I would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me.
sincere thanks/thank you/gratitude
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I would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me.
thank sb for an invitation
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I'll have to write a letter thanking Martha for the invitation to her wedding.
thank you for your kind invitation/offer (= said when thanking someone very politely for their invitation or offer )
Thank you very much
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Thank you very much , Brian.
thank you
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Margaret handed him the butter. ‘Thank you,’ said Samuel.
vote of thanks
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
friend
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Mr. Hayward I thank my hon. Friend for that answer.
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Mr. Needham I am sure that all the people of Belfast would like to thank my hon. Friend for her comments.
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Mrs. Heal I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention.
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We thank all our friends at Q.P.B.C. for their encouragement to us and for the love they have shown us.
god
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But not Security trained, thank the gods .
heaven
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Father in heaven , I thank you for your great love which banishes fear from my life.
help
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He then thanked them for their help during the appraisal period.
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Even as I thanked her for her help , I foresaw, with despair, what was going to come next.
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After he survived the vote, Mr Major went to the Whips' office to thank them for their help .
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Good-bye, Miss Morrow, and thanks for your help , which I suppose I will recover from.
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Anyway, thank you for your help .
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I thanked him for his help .
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On her way out of the library she thanked Molly for her help .
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The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere.
letter
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Bill had written one letter to thank me.
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If you have already posted a renewal or a new coupon since we prepared this letter thank you.
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The letters are arriving so thank you very much and please keep them coming.
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Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support.
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Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book.
lord
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It won't last, thank the Lord .
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Then his cab got stuck in traffic, for which I thanked the Lord .
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She thanked the Lord there had been none since Lily.
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Then they sank back into armchairs, thanking the Lord that never again in their lives would they move house.
note
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I send it to the individual's home and I include a personal note from me thanking him for his achievement.
opportunity
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Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support.
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I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown.
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We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and wish her a very happy retirement.
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It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now.
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As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service.
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May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society.
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have written to us.
stars
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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The Bruins this morning are thanking their lucky stars for goaltender Bill Ranford.
■ VERB
like
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The Singers would like to thank everyone who contributed.
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I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in this post.
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On behalf of Council 80 of Stockport, I would like to thank everyone who made it such a successful evening.
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I would like to thank the headteacher and staff of the school and the local advisers for making this study possible.
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It would, however, like to thank Terry Mansfield, National Magazine's managing director.
say
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And to say thank you for that lovely picnic.
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I don't - I just say thank you and goodbye, then I go off up the road.
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Looking for a way to say thank you to some one special in your life?
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The chorus girls kissed him on the cheek for gratitude and the men smiled and said thank you.
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She said thank you only when ordered to do so.
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I think it's whisky or summat, so I say no thank you.
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She looks up at the sky and says thank you.
want
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Staff want to thank shopkeepers who support the hospice by keeping collection boxes on their counters.
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Rusty and I both want to thank you for taking the time to meet.
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Well, I wanted to say thank you.
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As she leaves, she has a list of 14 people and places she wants to thank .
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Mrs Adams wanted to say thank you publicly.
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I want to thank you for your support of me.
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She left a message on his answering machine: Nick, I wanted to thank you for last night.
wish
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I particularly wish to thank the Casualty department and Ward 9 from where I was released.
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I wish to thank the Endsleigh Community for hosting our meetings in Hull.
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We wish to thank both these bodies for the support without which the Conference could not have taken place.
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The Humane Research Trust raised £160.30 during a collection in Huyton recently, and wish to thank the people for their generosity.
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We wish to thank everyone who has contributed directly or indirectly to the preparation of this document.
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I wish to thank each and every one of you for the part you played during 1991.
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Cicely wishes to thank everyone who offered items.
write
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Bill had written one letter to thank me.
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I must write Victor a thank you.
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If you like the program, write and thank the developers.
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We had a splendid time and I just feel I had to write and thank you.
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He wrote back to thank me for it.
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Horrified, she realised she would have to write and thank everyone.
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One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended.
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I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I don't know how to thank you/repay you
a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc
a word of warning/caution/advice/thanks etc
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And a word of advice just you be careful of that old goat, Moreton.
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And a word of warning - when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops.
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But business advisors in the city have sounded a word of caution.
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He would hand her a sheaf of uncounted bank notes, which she received without a word of thanks.
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However, a word of caution is in order.
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Now a word of warning about the stitch patterns in the pattern book.
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Take a word of advice, Mr Watt.
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You won't mind a word of advice?
debt of gratitude/thanks
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In addition to that great teacher of prayer, there were others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.
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Some say it is because of Baba Firdaus and his holy life, others say because Amanullah Khan paid his debt of gratitude.
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The present writer owes him a particularly deep debt of gratitude.
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Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude.
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We all owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we wish him well.
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We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years.
many thanks
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Many thanks for your letter of the other day.
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We received the pictures on Wednesday. Many thanks.
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Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition.
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Finally, many thanks to the parents and all the other folk who helped us by being part of the duty rota.
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I stood up swiftly, telling him many thanks for bothering.
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In anticipation, many thanks for your assistance.
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Letter from the Chairman Very many thanks to all of you who returned the questionnaire.
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Once again, many thanks for your assistance in this matter.
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Thanks to Sam Wright for the transcription and many thanks for reading.
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Very many thanks for your help.
no thanks
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Thanks , but - no thanks!
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Carrie said we could do another screen but I said no thanks .
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He offers me a free go too but I just stick my nose in the air and say no thanks .
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I offer to buy him a fibreglass canoe but he says no thanks , he already has one.
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I threw the last one's sketches across his office and told him: shoddy, unexciting, no thanks .
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No great compliments, no thanks .
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She didn't think that there was anything broken ... but no thanks to Johnny, she thought bitterly.
no thanks to sb/sth
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Everyone got out safely, no thanks to the smoke alarm - its batteries were dead.
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Glorious because they came away with a victory over Rosslyn Park ... but no thanks to the quagmire at the Kingsholm ground.
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She didn't think that there was anything broken ... but no thanks to Johnny, she thought bitterly.
no, thank you
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"Would you like some more coffee?'' "No, thank you, I'm fine.''
propose a vote of thanks (to sb)
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Chairman Gerald Davies proposed a vote of thanks.
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I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
thanks a lot
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"I forgot to bring your money." "Well, thanks a lot!"
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Gee, thanks a lot for saving me from Madonna in the morning.
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Hey, thanks a lot, Wyatt.
thanks to sb/sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A relieved Mr Maxwell thanked his lawyer profusely.
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I spent three hours helping her and she didn't even thank me.
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The Governor publicly thanked the people of Arizona for supporting him during his campaign.
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We must write and thank Cathy for the present.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that lots of people stood up and thanked everybody.
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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I thank all who have assisted the Bill's passage through the House.
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It is intended to accredit these individually as used but we would like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr Gilson now.
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She did not thank this nun for making her the centre of attention.