Example sentences of "and let [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could put a starving child before him and give it food and let him watch it grow well , I know he 'd give money . |
| 2 | and let him sit and listen to me |
| 3 | Why not do as he says , and let him send you to Nicosia as an envoy ? ’ |
| 4 | For example , assign your service manager a budget and let him control his own expenditure . |
| 5 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 6 | For example , set your production manager a quantified quality standard and let him control defects . |
| 7 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
| 8 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 9 | Julia sat down in the chair next to David 's and let him pour her a cup of cooling tea . |
| 10 | That they had all stood and let him go . |
| 11 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 12 | Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go . |
| 13 | Would you really have stood by and let him go free ? ’ |
| 14 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 15 | Charles stood aside , and let him go . |
| 16 | Charles stood aside , and let him go . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees . |
| 18 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 19 | Then without the slightest compunction she thrust her basin of money and book of tickets into Sally 's lap and let him drag her , protesting theatrically , onto the dance floor . |
| 20 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 21 | And you stand by and let him do it … |
| 22 | And it 's three little jobs and let him do it . |
| 23 | She knew he was fobbing her off , but she accepted it ; she was willing to sit in the back seat and let him do the driving . |
| 24 | Why do n't we just go to Keith 's and let him do something ? |
| 25 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 26 | They walked together through Dobbs 's field and Tom stood by the gate and let him walk on his own up the lane . |
| 27 | They simply opened the prison gates and let him walk out . |
| 28 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 29 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 30 | ‘ Get the good word to him if you so please , ’ he said amiably , ‘ and let him make himself scarce . |