Example sentences of "[pers pn] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 3 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 4 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 5 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 6 | I let them swim in peace . |
| 7 | No , well no I let them go though . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Because I let them know that I know . |
| 12 | I let them get on with it , and returned ten minutes later to find them " space-walking " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |
| 15 | I let them haggle . |
| 16 | I let him stay here because of you . |
| 17 | I let him do it , but he did n't do it . |
| 18 | so erm , oh I let him sort it all out |
| 19 | ‘ So , Rosie , like a fool I let him manipulate me into working twice as hard as I imagined I would . |
| 20 | As far as I remember , I let him finish his replies ! |
| 21 | I let him think it was mutual . " |
| 22 | I let him leave first . |
| 23 | I let him borrow it . |
| 24 | I let him go . |
| 25 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
| 26 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 27 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 28 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 29 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 30 | no one , two , three , four , five , once I caught a fish alive , six , seven , eight , nine , ten , then I let him go again |