Example sentences of "let [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 2 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 3 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 4 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 5 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 6 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 7 | Carolyn let herself out of the french windows and made her way along the trodden track to her garden , now a dug rectangle of some eight by twelve yards , backing on to the wall of Keswick 's warehouse . |
| 8 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 9 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 10 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 11 | I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office . |
| 12 | There was an arched cartway into the yard , and a narrow wicket let them in through the thick oak portal to the cobbled court , ringed round with stables and storehouses . |
| 13 | ‘ You let me out at the next corner . |
| 14 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 15 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 16 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 17 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
| 18 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 19 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 20 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 21 | She bent quickly to kiss her father , then let herself out into the shadowy hall , and made for the wide , oak-panelled stairs . |
| 22 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 23 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 24 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 25 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 26 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 29 | I 'm letting you in on the latest fashion and all you can do is accuse me of lying . |
| 30 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |