Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many are accompanied by mothers who 've let them take the day off . |
| 2 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 3 | Watch out Christopher let me move the table . |
| 4 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 5 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |
| 6 | ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ? |
| 7 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 8 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |
| 9 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 10 | And he let them see the gun . |
| 11 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 12 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 13 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 14 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 15 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 16 | I 'm going to Councillor Lines here who 's a Conservative Councillor , hang on Theresa , we have a Conservative Councillor let him answer the question . |
| 17 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 18 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 19 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 20 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 21 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 22 | And she knew now why Nils had let her leave the hotel this evening . |
| 23 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 24 | That was why once or twice Debbie let her cash the money order for her . |
| 25 | She worked the ragstore , she had worked there all her days , since she had left school — and a whisker away from a special one — what wits she had ; and wit let her steal the jacket , Mr McGregor 's broken arm . |
| 26 | So Deborah returned along the DANGER path on Farmer Plant 's horse , which was a big one named Sultan and she enjoyed it enormously , especially as Farmer Plant let her take the reins when she told him she knew how to ride . |
| 27 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 28 | When he let it go the ram trotted off , barging through the other sheep with the lukal bulging out on either side across its ribcage . |
| 29 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 30 | Uncover the loaf and let everyone admire the bread . |