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3. 在The CORPUS OF CONTEMPORAY AMERICAN ENGLISH (1990-2012) (Mark Davies, Brigham Young University) http://www.americancorpus.org/ SEARCH STRING上
① 輸入 “verb.All +a debt of gratitude to” 共得到包含“owe a debt of gratitude to sb”的例句19例；包含“owes a debt of gratitude to sb”的例句10例；包含“has a debt of gratitude to sb”例句1例；包含“feel a debt of gratitude to sb”的例句 1例。
②輸入 “verb.All +a+adj.All+ debt of gratitude to” 共得到包含“owe a great debt of gratitude to sb”的例句5 例；包含“owe a special debt of gratitude to sb”的例句3例；包含“owe a huge debt of gratitude to sb”例句2 例；包含“owe a real debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owe a deep debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owes a great debt of gratitude to sb”的例句2例; 包含“owes a special debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owes a huge debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owes a big debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“owed a sizable debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例; 包含“feel a great debt of gratitude to sb”的例句1例.
③輸入 “verb.All +an+adj.All+ debt of gratitude to” 僅得到以下1例：
2004 Partly for this reason, South Africa owes an enormous debt of gratitude to dealers such as Merton Simpson who, as Jay Last points out, always had an umbrella rack in his New York gallery full of southern African staffs and clubs.
④輸入 “debt of gratitude + verb.ALL” 僅得到以下2句：
1997 A special debt of gratitude is owed to Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor of the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, not only for his attentive reading of this paper but also for the guidance, encouragement, and example he has most generously continued to provide since my graduate student days.
2002 A more general debt of gratitude is owed to Stephen Melville, who, early on, showed me what it might mean to actually read Greenberg thoughtfully and with care.
⑤分別輸入 “have/has /had /having a debt of gratitude” 僅得到以下1句：
2002 I believe our nation and our city has a debt of gratitude to the people who are out there in the middle of the night and in the day, and working without recognition, who can't stand up here -- indeed, they should not stand up here, but they are out there working as we speak to make this culmination possible. (注：該句屬于have a debt of gratitude to sb.而不是for sb.)
⑥分別輸入 “have/has /had /having debts of gratitude” 得到的結果都是：Sorry, there are no matching records.
⑦分別輸入 “have/has /had /having +adj.ALL+ debts of gratitude” 得到的結果都是：Sorry, there are no matching records.
綜上所述，可以看出無論在英國英語中，還是在美國英語中,a debt of gratitude通常用作動詞owe的賓語，其后常接介詞to，再接指人的名詞作介賓，即owe a debt of gratitude to sb.基本上成了一個固定搭配。
當然，a debt of gratitude偶爾也用作其它動詞如feel 和acknowledge等的賓語，這點從“張柏然主編《新時代英漢大詞典》(商務印書館 2004年4月第1版)p556: feel a special debt of gratitude to sb 對某人特別感恩戴德 ” 和“(日) 市川繁治郎主編《英語搭配大辭典》(外語教學與研究出版社2006年10月第1版)p451: acknowledge a special debt of gratitude to sb ”上也可以看得出來， 但是幾乎不作動詞have的賓語，再者說，此時debt通常用作單數形式，不用復數形式debts。
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