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 . |