Example sentences of "let [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grain was too complex and cross for him , the blade stuck , and in the same instant Isambard stretched both arms over the boy 's shoulders and seized his hands , forcing them apart and wringing them until he twisted with pain and let go both the knife and the wood . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 're in the top 10 and let go even for an instant then you might as well be 200 , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Let go aft ! ’ |
| 4 | Well let go then ! |
| 5 | let go then , let go |
| 6 | So you let go gently then you do the same on the other side , and then of course you 've got this piece free . |
| 7 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 8 | Anyway , she had a four-year-old boy called Keith , who she never let play outside unless she was watching , because there was no defensible space . |
| 9 | If you let it last , if you let sleeping together become regular — the way you live , instead of unexpected and just for sex — sometime you will end up having one of these four-in-the-morning , lay yourself bare , skin-peeling torture sessions . |
| 10 | There is a name to conjure with and let slip easily of the tongue . |
| 11 | HOWARD KENDALL last night hailed Peter Beardsley as the near-priceless asset that Liverpool let slip away . |
| 12 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |