Jeremy Hunt had just sent a text message to James Murdoch congratulating him on the progress of his bid.

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Khan, congratulating him on his release earlier this year from house arrest and inviting him to come sample Honduran night life.

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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg welcomed Mr Thornton to Westminster as he arrived on Monday, congratulating him on "that superb victory".

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Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, backed Mr Yanukovich in 2004, even prematurely congratulating him on a rigged victory that was later overturned.

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Please join me in thanking Marcus for all that he has done for The Post and in congratulating him on his new role with the Company.

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One day, a car climbed up to Lobskaya Hill and six people all arrived together, bringing him a telegram from Moscow and congratulating him on the medal he was to be awarded.

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It was not accepted by Guinness World Records' rule-keepers due to his lack of a birth certificate, although he did produce a letter from Britain's Queen Elizabeth congratulating him on his 100th birthday.

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The celebrations are already over, however, and the new father, who has married the same woman who threw him out, is crying in his beer about the miseries of married life and congratulating him on being well out of it, a lucky man.

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And just a month before his death he wrote a letter to a colleague who had published a novel, kindly congratulating him but remarking, also, on a few stylistic infelicities.

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