Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 2 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 3 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 5 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 6 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 7 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 8 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 9 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 10 | I 'm going to Councillor Lines here who 's a Conservative Councillor , hang on Theresa , we have a Conservative Councillor let him answer the question . |
| 11 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 12 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 13 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 14 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 15 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 16 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 17 | Pion helped him drag the pot towards the hatch . |
| 18 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 19 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 20 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 21 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 22 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 23 | The nomination helped him avoid the feuds between Francis Clifford , fourth Earl of Cumberland , and Lord William Howard ( 1563–1640 , q.v. ) , and signalled that he was ‘ tied to none in dependancie ’ . |
| 24 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 25 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 26 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 27 | She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered . |
| 28 | Lorton helped him push the piano away from the wall . |
| 29 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 30 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |