Example sentences of "[conj] he let me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 2 | ‘ I pay the rent and he lets me sleep here . ’ |
| 3 | Then he changed , he got out the chess-board and we played chess and he let me beat him . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll tell your mother , ’ I said , and he let me go . |
| 5 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 6 | If he lets me go he 'll have to trust me . |
| 7 | Well I can , if he lets me have his space we do n't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something . |
| 8 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 9 | But he let me search and ch-ch-ch |
| 10 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |
| 11 | But he let me kiss his hand . |
| 12 | I said I would fast unless he let me come upstairs . |
| 13 | ‘ Because he lets me put rollers in his hair ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I love him because he lets me put make-up on his face , ’ says six-year-old Dawn of her dad Ken Jackson |
| 15 | ‘ Because he lets me put rollers in his hair ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I love him because he lets me put make-up on his face , ’ says six-year-old Dawn of her dad Ken Jackson |
| 17 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 18 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 19 | But when he lets me switch it on |
| 20 | ‘ When he let me pass , he then slipstreamed and overtook me again . |
| 21 | ‘ But the manager Allan Clarke was only keeping his word when he let me go to Portsmouth . |
| 22 | Many a wet day was passed in this way for he let me help him , or did I hinder ? |