Example sentences of "[verb] let him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | ‘ I say let him have it ’ |
| 3 | I promised to let him know when Edgar Linton was away from home . |
| 4 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 5 | Er you want to let him have a look |
| 6 | Well alright he 's gon na turn left , er just pause let him clear and then follow the way t follow the way through . |
| 7 | After 1962 , when Macmillan persuaded President Kennedy at the Nassau meeting to let him have Polaris , the British space effort lost the committed patronage of the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | Penry got to his feet very slowly , standing over her in a way which made Leonora long to back away , but she stood her ground , refusing to let him intimidate her . |
| 9 | Fighting an impulse to back away , Gina forced herself to hold her ground , refusing to let him see how his nearness made the hairs on the back of her neck rise in anticipation of conflict . |
| 10 | Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine . |
| 11 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 12 | Even that slight contact sent a shudder through her body , but she fought it , refusing to let him see how he could move her . |
| 13 | ‘ Everybody needs a base , ’ she had returned lightly , refusing to let him dull the excitement she had felt ever since finding the farmhouse . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 15 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 16 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 17 | It would n't do to let him see her relief and gratitude . |
| 18 | And then he concludes what we have as verse thirty five , he who has ears to hear let him hear . |
| 19 | Notice what we said earlier on in that last verse , the last phrase of the last verse in the previous chapter , he who has ears to hear let him hear . |
| 20 | But Arabella Buckley , with a murderer who was not ‘ one of us ’ almost under her thumb , was not going to let him go so easily . |
| 21 | With the older boys there are times when leave them alone is the very best policy , you can intrude too much on a pupil who knows what he 's doing ; maybe not doing it 100 per cent successfully , but you 've got to let him get to that point of destruct , as part of his learning process … |
| 22 | Do n't you dare let him crap anywhere ! |
| 23 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 24 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 25 | But then he asked her what she was knitting , so she had to answer him , and after that she agreed to let him tap her chest with his rubber hammer , peer into her ears with his pencil light , and press the back of her tongue with one of Mrs Hollidaye 's silver apostle teaspoons . |
| 26 | She was impressed , and agreed to let him exhibit some work in one of the long corridors leading from reception to the dining-room . |
| 27 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 28 | He had a bike which she 'd stopped letting him use because it had become dangerous . |
| 29 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 30 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |