Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 2 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 3 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |
| 4 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 5 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 6 | You let them visit you on that night and that 's it . |
| 7 | Now let me present you with another one . |
| 8 | Well , I mean the point to make about this budget is I 've just told you about two million pounds worth of minuses , let me tell you about two million pounds of pluses that are going in . |
| 9 | ‘ Let me tell you about this guy , ’ said Harvey pointing a thumb at me . |
| 10 | Let me tell you of some of the important stories that I believe we have covered inadequately — and in some cases not at all . |
| 11 | Er let me tell you in any self employed business you 're gon na have to have a car . |
| 12 | Let me leave you with one of my favourite pieces of Alpine observation . |
| 13 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 14 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 15 | Bye yes I , they let me do it on that if you authorise them . |
| 16 | Then let me cosh you with this detail : one of the most important human pheromones , or sex-pongs , is called isobutyraldehyde , which in the mighty pulsing chain of carbon lies immediately next to — the odour of bean sprouts ! |
| 17 | I said , ‘ Seth , let me help you over this ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Let me ask you about one particular artist , whose name has actually escaped me at the moment |
| 19 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 20 | I got your stock see , I 've got your stock , you 're either gon na shut your case or you 're going to the , you 're going to go to the house or you 're going have to move me from that objection that I 've hit you with , then the objection that you 're comfortable with , now that 's what closes are about , it 's dancing people from one objection to another , let me put you on another objection then , seeing as you 're not too happy with that then |
| 21 | ‘ Let me introduce you to some of the other guests . ’ |
| 22 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
| 23 | Let me take you to one twentieth-century Christian who seems to me to express this so vividly . |
| 24 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 25 | Anyway , let us arrange it like this : we 'll keep it quiet until the beginning of the year , and then , if you have n't changed your mind ’ — he leant his head towards her , a soft smile on his face — ‘ I will ask your mother if we can become engaged , and just before you 're seventeen or just after , we 'll be married . ’ |
| 26 | Let us apply it to two mutually perpendicular directions , the x and z axes let us say . |
| 27 | Let us reduce it to two words , ‘ Be aware ’ , and define ‘ aware of X ’ as prepared to take X into account in choices . |
| 28 | She 'll have to bribe the dezhurnaya to let you visit her at that time . ’ |
| 29 | So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all . |
| 30 | Mad to let him kiss me like this . |