Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] let [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no way I intend to let you out of this bed until you 've promised that you 'll marry me . ’ |
| 2 | I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer ! |
| 3 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 4 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 5 | I was ashamed of what I had let myself in for with Jean-Claude . |
| 6 | Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping . |
| 7 | I 've ever done , he said and I 'll be totally honest with you he said if I 'd have known how big it was I would n't have done the operation he said I really did n't know what I 've let myself in for , he said he 's had problems with |
| 8 | ‘ You 're really ambivalent about what I 've let you in for , are n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 10 | All that their unfortunate ancestors had to say probably came in questions : ‘ When are you going to let me out of here ? ’ and ‘ Can I go home now , please ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And , more important , are you going to let me out of here ? ’ |
| 12 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 13 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 14 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 15 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 16 | But she refused to let him off with insinuations . |
| 17 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 18 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 19 | When they started to let us out of the house we were able to rummage amongst the appalling pile of rubbish strewn around the University campus nearby . |
| 20 | LIKELY — Chris Wheatley , Mark , Kevin , Chris , Richard and Keith wonder what they have let themselves in for and , below , they get to grips with crossing a very cold lake . |
| 21 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 22 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 23 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 24 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |