Example sentences of "letting [pron] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my hand to my brow , looking down and shaking my head , then sigh theatrically and look at him , letting my shoulders slump . |
| 2 | And it 's supposed to keep me from reaching out for you in the night , wrapping my arms around you , letting my lips tangle in your hair … ’ |
| 3 | I closed the door and propped a piece of wood against it , then stood for a while , letting my eyes adjust to the gloom and my mind to the feel of the place . |
| 4 | One uncomfortable consequence of the seemly recognition of the needs of the rest of Europe is that there is no way of bringing Central Europe into the fold except by letting its members earn their keep , implying a repartition of the industrial division of labour now in place . |
| 5 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom will supply 10 towns with a Switched Multi-megabit Data Service by the end of the year , Computerwoche reports : users in Munich and Stuttgart will have immediate access to the new Hannover , Berlin , Dusseldorf , Frankfurt and Nuremburg will follow ; as such the project represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of the IEEE 802.6 standard in Europe ; but Telekom has gone further than most by letting its users use the protocol 's speech and video capabilities , and the state firm is touting the network 's 53-byte cell structure as an easy way for customers to migrate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability in the future . |
| 6 | Thanks to him , she was like a boat without a rudder , drifting aimlessly in a river , letting its currents take her wherever they wanted . |
| 7 | Rory drew in a deep breath , letting her lungs fill with the cool pine-scented air of the forest , then threw her head back as she exhaled , her hair tumbling over her shoulders in shining , rippling waves . |
| 8 | She read it over many times , letting her tears fall unchecked on the page . |
| 9 | Letting her veils blow |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , well , that 's fine , ’ she sighed stoically , ‘ I think I can live with that , ’ letting her fingers drift idly beneath his shirt . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps Mrs Porter will do that , ’ Belinda murmured against his lips , letting her fingers trail up and down the sinewed shape of his back . |
| 12 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 13 | As Ace manoeuvred down the flank of the shuttle , letting her gauntlets scrape against the weld-seams and pock-marks in order to slow her drift towards the base of the craft , she saw that the Dalek Killer was using his weapon to cut through the metallic material of the surface on which he 'd parked . |
| 14 | They only served to emphasise the power and toughness which was the man beneath the civilised veneer , and Fran shivered , wishing she had never started this by letting her emotions come to the surface . |
| 15 | She stiffened , letting her arms fall to her sides , and he raised his head , looking at her with eyes that glittered with anger . |
| 16 | Maybe the conversation had something to do with it , for Eva had no intention of letting her interests deteriorate however far out in the bush they might be , and she was rarely at loss for an anecdote or conversation starter . |
| 17 | She was n't letting her kids go out |
| 18 | She sighed now and wrapped her hands around her cocoa mug , letting her eyes drift to the framed photograph on top of the bookshelves . |
| 19 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 20 | I yelled a See Yer to Kim along with some friendly advice about not letting her thighs get too cold . |
| 21 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 22 | She stopped , suddenly realising that she was letting her ideas run away with her . |
| 23 | Letting her hands lift of their own volition , she slipped her fingers hungrily up the hard , stubble-roughened jawline and into the damp blackness of his hair . |
| 24 | The woman turned , meeting Karr 's eyes briefly , her own eyes wide , her whole body tensed as if to meet some other threat , then she turned away , a faint shudder passing through her , letting her co-workers carry the three men off . |
| 25 | My friends liked the idea of letting their feet come round naturally by unwinding into the turn and will try that to help their parallels this winter . |
| 26 | I do n't know of any league penalty regarding players not turning up and not letting their opponents know in good time that they will not be playing . |
| 27 | They have raised the ire of President Ceausescu by letting their cattle die of old age or starvation both because fodder is extremely scarce and the miserable prices offered by the state . |
| 28 | They sit here day after day , gazing out into the middle distance , letting their problems stockpile to nothing more complicated than yet another sunny day on the porch of a listing old house . |
| 29 | The ERM prevents them from letting their currencies float downwards to adjust . |
| 30 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |