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

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1 What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years .
2 at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past
3 ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it .
4 ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’
5 he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more
6 The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out .
7 Was that why Benjamin had let me go ?
8 You should have let me go . ’
9 Right I shall have let me go and get the matches .
10 You have warm feelings for her too , but you 've let me succeed in courting her !
11 Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him .
12 ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes .
13 ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying .
14 My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock .
15 They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine .
16 ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’
17 Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike .
18 ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’
19 ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant .
20 ‘ I did ask him why he had n't let me know on his way there that he would be coming later .
21 All they were told to do was let me know if you became engaged . ’
22 It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious .
23 Or she 'd have let me know .
24 Supposed to have let me know last night again .
25 If you 'd have let me know I could have
26 Pat you could also send the same letter to doctor of the Ministero M I N I S T E R O Dell' capital D E L L apostrophe , capital A G R I C O L D U R A Spise , small E , Spise Delle D E L L E space Foreste F O R E S T E in Italy , you have the address I 'm , I think , but if you have n't let me know .
27 Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer .
28 ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’
29 She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her .
30 And I was er I was er let me see , eighteen years and ten months old .
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