Example sentences of "they let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 3 | But it 's important , for what we 're going to be thinking of this morning to re , keep that little phrase in mind that Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side , there was purpose in going into that boat . |
| 4 | If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people have to get wildly angry before they let themselves feel anything . ’ |
| 6 | I was surprised they let him do that . |
| 7 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 8 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 9 | Richard Gough is unmatched by any current English central defender and Spurs must still be cursing the day they let him go . |
| 10 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 11 | When they were satisfied that there was no more to be got they let him go . |
| 12 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 13 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 14 | Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable . |
| 15 | They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts . |
| 16 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 17 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |
| 18 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 19 | Because they let him pick them up . |
| 20 | They let him have his degree , of course , out of pure charity . |
| 21 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 22 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 23 | They let him come and he wo n't get any biscuits . |
| 24 | They let her pass . |
| 25 | But there was never anyone else there when they let her go that far . |
| 26 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 27 | they let her go on too long and it |
| 28 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 29 | Dressed in flowing trousers and a tunic of billowing rose — they let her have clothes , now , providing she chose them herself by drawing what it was she wanted — she spent hours sitting at the table in the artificial sun over the balcony , the day 's book-cube dangling forgotten from her fingers . |
| 30 | They let her keep that part of herself , though much else changed . |