Example sentences of "to let [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
2 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
3 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
4 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |
5 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
6 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |