Example sentences of "deliberately let " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 2 | I shake my hand free of most of his semen and deliberately let my hand brush across the leaves and blades as I dash past , wiping the rest off . |
| 3 | She deliberately let a little silence grow between them . |
| 4 | Kate deliberately let all control go , let her anger at this man rip through her with all the force of a forest fire . |
| 5 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |