Example sentences of "let [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’
2 I 've let them know it 's , it 's going ahead erm and that the vote is coming off .
3 He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground .
4 ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it .
5 ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’
6 ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’
7 Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer .
8 If you 'd have let me know I could have
9 ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’
10 ‘ You should have let me kill him ! ’
11 Well can I can I amend my question I mean is the is that a full year cost or is it let me try it again erm .
12 Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months .
13 He let me hold it once .
14 Jack let me tell you , I 'll tell you a story shall I ?
15 Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh .
16 We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more .
17 He let me stroke him but he was very hesitant . ’
18 Then he changed , he got out the chess-board and we played chess and he let me beat him .
19 She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea .
20 Many a wet day was passed in this way for he let me help him , or did I hinder ?
21 He let me know you were all right .
22 Then she let me kiss her .
23 She let me film her .
24 He let them lead him away , straight ahead between the rows of cauldrons .
25 it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really .
26 ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’
27 Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her .
28 For a moment he let himself imagine he was some great explorer about to enter a hostile , unknown land on which his name would later be stamped for all history .
29 ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’
30 You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past .
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