Example sentences of "[conj] let [pron] get " in BNC.

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1 Do n't get your hopes too high or let yourself get too carried away after all you know what people are like .
2 You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter .
3 " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . "
4 It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top .
5 Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it .
6 Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it .
7 Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’
8 Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway .
9 ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains .
10 His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ .
11 So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) .
12 Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ?
13 The guitar had no place here and the guitarist sat back with a grin , his back to the open case , and let them get on with it .
14 We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) .
15 most likely to make people believe that they can achieve a certain thing and let them get up and do it and erm so that the Party 's role is in the initial stage fostering as much mobilization
16 We have to give them the ball out wide and let them get at Southend 's back four . ’
17 ‘ Give her the päté anyway and let her get on with it .
18 After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel .
19 Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it .
20 Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it .
21 Just shut up and let me get the fuck on with it .
22 Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me .
23 Stop jawing and let me get on with it .
24 ‘ Come on , Terry , just mend it and let me get out of here . ’
25 ‘ Here — you run along and let me get on with it . ’
26 Self-satisfaction had given way to an impatience that said , as clearly as the words , ‘ If that 's the best you can do , stop wasting my time and let me get on with my work . ’
27 ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’
28 Come here , cara , and let me get a closer look . ’
29 If you held the cup and let me get hold of handle I 'd have been alright .
30 Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ?
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