Example sentences of "let go of [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let go of her hot grief , which dissolved and became the dew on his garments . |
| 2 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 3 | She had the sort of belly that has produced perhaps three or four children and never managed to forget its importance or let go of its previous function or recover from its distension . |
| 4 | I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane . |
| 5 | Are you prepared in the light of God 's desire for your wholeness to let go of whatever negative emotions you have towards them ? |
| 6 | The Glass Menagerie is partly autobiographical and describes the conflict between a son , Tom , who is drawn to the sensuality of D.H.Lawrence 's writings and who himself scribbles poems on shoe-boxes in the warehouse where he works , and a repressive and puritanical mother , Amanda , who is as passionately possessive of her children as she is unwilling to let go of her own lost youth . |
| 7 | It is now also dawning on us that , while they may have dropped their hippie beads and trinkets , they failed to let go of their new world view . |
| 8 | Looked at like that , I gradually began to feel a little more able to let go of my unrealistic expectations of my mother and to love her as she is . |
| 9 | It teaches a child to let go of his own will for the sake of others , with whom he has to live and let live . |
| 10 | ‘ The film is pretty short , but makes everything count and , while proving extremely entertaining , never lets go of its main point , which is to illuminate , with some sympathy , the underbelly of Scandinavian and particularly Finnish life . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |