Example sentences of "[noun] let [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna let go of the door and allowed Ryker to grab her other hand . |
| 2 | The only requirements are patience , a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime . |
| 3 | Instantly , Doyle let go of Jinny and started forward , his arms outstretched to take the Kalashnikov . |
| 4 | Barak nodded his head vigorously and Bernard let go of his shirt . |
| 5 | KINGSTONIAN boss Chris Kelly let rip with his famous lip last night in an astonishing attack on the Football Association . |
| 6 | THE wee boy 's best shoes clumped on the polished floor as his elder sister let go of his arms . |
| 7 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 8 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 9 | It shook slightly as he scribbled an address , then pushed the serviette across the table , his body slowly relaxing as Ward let go of him and picked up the serviette . |
| 10 | Maggie let go of her and called up the stairs . |
| 11 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 12 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 13 | Mitch Cook 's free-kick was hacked clear to Steve O'Shaughnessy on the edge of the box , where the Bradford old boy he was released by them as a youngster let fly with a powerful right-foot shot which Bradford keeper Paul Tomlinson allowed to slip under his body . |
| 14 | Are you prepared in the light of God 's desire for your wholeness to let go of whatever negative emotions you have towards them ? |
| 15 | It teaches a child to let go of his own will for the sake of others , with whom he has to live and let live . |
| 16 | As soon as Thérèse let go of them they flew apart and fumbled in the air again . |
| 17 | The strongest youth cultures of the century were in the 1950s and 1960s , and now that the members of this generation are over the border into middle age , they are showing an egotistical , but maybe quite a healthy reluctance to let go of the limelight . |
| 18 | Perhaps this is due to a reluctance to let go of the past , and perhaps too there is a parallel in other parts of the garden with the modern revival of interest in ‘ wild ’ and ‘ natural ’ gardens and plants . |
| 19 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 20 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 21 | This is strictly speaking an impossibility , in that it is impossible to do and have what we recognise as a knot without at some point letting go of the rope . |
| 22 | Bites usually begin with a slight tremble , or lift of half an inch or so , and then a steady but determined rise that continues until you strike or the fish lets go of the bait . |
| 23 | To divine requires a willingness to let go of ‘ rational ’ concepts , and to allow intuition and imagination to be the communicators of information . |
| 24 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |
| 25 | Eventually Oliver let go of my sleeve . |
| 26 | Both Anna and Constanza let go at once . |
| 27 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 28 | At the very least , he will make it plain that Israel must one day let go of most of the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 29 | You 're preaching individuality , intactness , but people let go of these things when they love . |
| 30 | Four minutes later Lindsay McVicker let fly at a cross from Catherine Howard but the ball flew past the upright . |