Sentence examples for congratulated on being from inspiring English sources

This womanliness is noticed by the ever-sharp Hague, who points out that the right honourable member should be congratulated on being female, especially as the first woman to stand in that position in 30 years... since his dearly beloved Iron Maid.

That's because the vice president was having all sorts of trouble reaching Marty Walsh, whom he wanted to congratulate on being elected mayor of Boston.

"May I congratulate you on being one of the three finest strikers in the world?" was his opening question.

Her mother congratulated her on being such a good manager.

We congratulated ourselves on being alone, on having a private freight car.

In 1901 J. P. Morgan congratulated him on being "the richest man in the world".

My mum congratulated me on being an overnight success after 20 years.

But she had never congratulated herself on being her better self for all those years.

He congratulated him on being named the game's most valuable player, and Manning replied that all he wanted to do was help the team win.

They congratulated themselves on being unusually responsible and believed themselves to be at the start of a long journey, weightless spores blowing west.

Mr. Putin met the younger man, Ilham Aliyev, left, at a meeting of former Soviet republics and congratulated him on being appointed prime minister last month.