Example sentences of "and let me [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 So Judge — gave us a 21-month suspended sentence and let me walk out the court .
2 They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair .
3 And let me mention this .
4 Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open .
5 Let me take hold of that weakness of yours and let me change your water into wine . ’
6 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
7 Lean over here and let me whisper . ’
8 Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ]
9 And let me give you another quote : ‘ I love the vanquished , but I also love the victors . ’
10 Come to me and let me give you what you want . ’
11 Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter .
12 It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone .
13 ’ Then waive your share and let me do it alone , ’ I suggested .
14 Now , for God 's sake , go to bed , and let me do the same . ’
15 ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’
16 ‘ Now for heaven 's sake get some sleep — and let me do the same ! ’
17 If you had left well alone and let me carry on my business I would n't be here .
18 ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out .
19 ‘ I want you to come out to Leytonstone with me and let me show you something . ’
20 ‘ I want you to come with me to Mr Sunil 's house and let me show you what I think happened to Billy Tuckett . ’
21 And let me show you what I mean by that .
22 ‘ In that case you must come over some time and let me show you around .
23 I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you .
24 And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls .
25 Just relax and let me love you .
26 I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature .
27 Shut up , and let me watch this play . "
28 Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ .
29 Erm And let me remind everybody because I do n't intend erm erm er waiting for for people to cough up on this so I would like to remind people to get , it it 's the thirteenth today .
30 Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march …
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