Example sentences of "let [pers pn] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I 'm letting you in on the latest fashion and all you can do is accuse me of lying . |
5 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
6 | ‘ Good morning , Mrs Wooldridge , ’ said Mrs Deacon , letting her in by the back door . |