Example sentences of "let [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are let know by it that she is a person of Taste … |
| 2 | She roamed back thoughtfully into childhood memories , hunting for the little clues her mother and grandmother had let fall about him , and the sum of them all was remarkably meagre . |
| 3 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 4 | Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 6 | ‘ You were one of several people who were probably going to be let go on my recommendation as part of a rationalisation programme , but the manner in which I caused it to happen … |
| 7 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 8 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 9 | as if he had let go of oars and rudder and now drifted on the dark current of events . |
| 10 | He was flushed and happy and he had n't let go of her hand since they 'd sat down . |
| 11 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 12 | His expression lightening a little once he had let go of her , he pulled a penny from his pocket , and said cheerfully , ‘ We 'll toss for white . |
| 13 | On the screen they had let go of the puerto Rican mass murderer 's trousers and he was on his way to the sidewalk , head first , at about seventy miles an hour . |
| 14 | The policeman had not let go of the stranger . |
| 15 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 16 | There was also a walled kitchen garden , which had been let go to grass , and a large hole had been knocked into one of the walls to let the tractor in to mow it . |
| 17 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 18 | Some relationships have to be let go in order that new ones can flourish . |
| 19 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 20 | Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over . |
| 21 | He let go of her arm . |
| 22 | He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest . |
| 23 | He let go of her arm . |
| 24 | He let go of the doorknob and thrust his hands back into his pockets . |
| 25 | When he let go of her to shut the door her impatience for him to return was almost more than her body could stand . |
| 26 | Instead he suffered an excruciating pain which made him clasp his heart , and he let go of Sarah so violently she crashed against the newel post . |
| 27 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 28 | He let go of Garty and shouted : ‘ They be waiting for the Battle this half hour out in St Thomas 's Street . |
| 29 | The gods smiled on them and she let go of the past . |
| 30 | She let go of Hester and Willie ran to his stepmother , flinging his arms around her . |