Example sentences of "[pers pn] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let myself knock . |
| 2 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 3 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 4 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 5 | I kept that up until dawn , when the search party returned , Esmerelda-less , then I let myself go to sleep . |
| 6 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 7 | I let myself get caught up in a legend — a fairy-tale . |
| 8 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 9 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 11 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 12 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 13 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 14 | I let them swim in peace . |
| 15 | No , well no I let them go though . |
| 16 | Talking about Esmerelda , and what had happened to her , still brought on mini-fits and screams and total withdrawal for a while , but after long and patient questioning by my father and Diggs I let them know what I wanted them to think had happened — a big kite ; Esmerelda becoming entangled in the lines ; me trying to help her and the winch slipping out of my fingers ; desperate running ; then a blank . |
| 17 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 18 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 19 | Because I let them know that I know . |
| 20 | I let them get on with it , and returned ten minutes later to find them " space-walking " . |
| 21 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 22 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |
| 23 | I let them haggle . |
| 24 | I let him stay here because of you . |
| 25 | I let him do it , but he did n't do it . |
| 26 | so erm , oh I let him sort it all out |
| 27 | ‘ So , Rosie , like a fool I let him manipulate me into working twice as hard as I imagined I would . |
| 28 | As far as I remember , I let him finish his replies ! |
| 29 | I let him think it was mutual . " |
| 30 | I let him leave first . |