Example sentences of "[conj] let us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up , or let us both set up , a credit for me . ’ |
| 2 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 3 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 4 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 5 | ‘ Leave me now , or let us fight until one of us is dead . |
| 6 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 7 | But on terms he knows the boy wo n't accept himself or let us accept for him . |
| 8 | If Let Us Compare Mythologies is a young man 's book , this is one ( though still of a young man , at 26 ) that offers poetic maturity , whose lyrics are charged with that mellow wistfulness , that trembling of angst , that vibration of incipient guilt and the plunging sensuality of a knowing , searching man ; a book whose range — for all that — is narrower than Let Us Compare Mythologies . |
| 9 | That let us think of the understanding of action in individualist terms , typified by the rational choices of the individual microeconomic agent . |
| 10 | And these scabs that went back , well they 're the ones that let us down . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose that lets us off the hook , ’ Lucinda offered . |
| 12 | There 's a rotary chin switch which you depress to activate an amplifier that lets us talk , visor to visor . |
| 13 | Please write courteous letters to the heads of the governments indicated — and let us know of any replies that you receive . |
| 14 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 15 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 16 | ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours . |
| 17 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 18 | Of heaven , and let us in . |
| 19 | Of heaven , and let us in . |
| 20 | And let us help each other get this thing into perspective or it 's going to ruin our collaboration . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Now come , Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ sit down and let us talk about this sensibly . ’ |
| 23 | The harried men tried to keep order but finally gave up and let us take over . |
| 24 | And let us suppose that in 1948 , following the fighting , he left his ordinary place of residence for a place of insurrection , then he is an absentee — even if he did not join the Arab forces that were fighting against Israel . ’ |
| 25 | Your puppy is now a young mature adult and let us assume he has gone through puppyhood with no problems . |
| 26 | Come , Brethren of the water , and let us all assemble , |
| 27 | Enough then of words , and let us fight it out like very knights . |
| 28 | And let us not forget the men of Sodom , the original buggers ( in the proper sense of that much used word ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ For God 's sake , ask them and let us go ! ’ |