Example sentences of "they let [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 2 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 3 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 4 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 5 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 6 | Now they let them out in the summertime to different people . |
| 7 | Sometimes , if the screws are happy , they let us out for a while , and sometimes we have exercise after dinner . |