Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] let [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 2 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you imagine even for one moment that I would let you go ? ’ |
| 4 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 5 | I you have n't , I 've got a list here that I can let you have . |
| 6 | I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear . |
| 7 | ‘ It — it disgusts me to think that I 'd let you kiss me that way . ’ |
| 8 | Anyway , I hope you 're still at the same address , and that someone may let us know where you are if you 're not . |
| 9 | Leave you I would , if I did not know you 'd fret your heart out worse than I 'll let you fret your body in the field . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 11 | You may not want to go to all this trouble so I 'll let you in on another easier method of finding some good swims . |
| 12 | I 'm really well adjusted so I can let it all hang out . |
| 13 | Eunice : We own this place so I can let you in . |
| 14 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 15 | What she told me about vegetable growing meant very little to me , so I can barely recall now what was said , except that she would let me have some strawberries on Monday for my brother 's supper , but I remember how easily the talk went , my unexpected visit serenely taken for granted , with no query as to why I had come . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you think that she 'll let me stay for good ? |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't realise that she 'd let her hair grow out . |
| 18 | As I see it , it 's up to Peggy , and knowing her I ca n't see that she 'd let anything happen that was n't above board . ’ |
| 19 | I rubbed the noses of one or two under the frowning suspicious gaze of Ms Brown who was not pleased to be told that she should let me in whenever I asked , eh ? |
| 20 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 21 | if he wanted to book again that she could let her , his , her villa . |
| 22 | ‘ I might as well tell you — if only so that you 'll let me go home . ’ |
| 23 | Promise me that you 'll let me know if the pain returns . |
| 24 | And most of all , that you 'll let me stay . |
| 25 | ‘ Julia , I hope that you will let me take you down into Florence for dinner tonight ; if we went early , we could stroll a little first and look at one or two of the best exteriors . ’ |
| 26 | I understand that you will let me know the date , time and place of their meeting . |
| 27 | Nor is the claim that you should let it . |
| 28 | In the end all the things I was most frightened of — that we would let my father down , that he would lose control , that he would die in agony — did not come to pass . |
| 29 | At present , we do n't have our addresses in Nanking and Shanghai , but will try to get them in advance , so that we can let you know how to contact us . |
| 30 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |