Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 3 | The red bitch 's jaws were clamped to his leg in an iron grip and she 'd no intention of letting him go . |
| 4 | ‘ We have no intention of letting him go and I would like him to stay on after his present contract expires . |
| 5 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 6 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 7 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 8 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 9 | These guidelines shape who we are , our beliefs , values and attitudes , and we are understandably terrified of letting them go , whether we react in compliance with them or against them . |
| 10 | Are you capable of letting it go and walking away ? |
| 11 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 12 | Corporal Steve Giles has somehow talked his Platoon Commander into letting him go on a familiarisation helicopter flight around the Sector perimeter . |
| 13 | Neither Croatia nor Slovenia could afford to bribe Serbia into letting them go . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Edgar will blame me for letting her go to your house . ’ |
| 15 | Philip was sick with himself for letting him go . |
| 16 | And Mum : Mum , thanks for letting me go to the fair . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd sneer at you , him and his daughter , and at me for letting you go out so , and that I 'll not have ! |
| 18 | Yes , they 'd , they 'd get paid twice , oh for letting 'em go and roping 'em in , I mean when a ship was swinging there 's somebody , I mean when a ship was swinging at Cliff Quay , there 's somebody got ta let go of the erm , the spring what they 're swinging on . |
| 19 | Ironically , it is sometimes shortage of staff which prevents them from letting you go . |
| 20 | ‘ Castleford made an inquiry for him but I was n't interested in letting him go . ’ |
| 21 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 22 | Statistics like these do not compare well with the animal world where the male rattlesnake apparently lasts twenty-four hours before letting himself go . |
| 23 | Leftwing rebels in El Salvador held an American civilian overnight and lectured him on US intervention while keeping his thumbs tied behind his back before letting him go , the US Embassy said yesterday . |
| 24 | Leftwing rebels in El Salvador held an American civilian overnight and lectured him on US intervention while keeping his thumbs tied behind his back before letting him go , the US Embassy said yesterday . |
| 25 | Gavin fished the spoon out , wiped it on his shirt , and gingerly offered it to his master , who gripped his wrist , jerked him forward and clattered his ears for him before letting him go . |
| 26 | It was an Imperial and he was so proud of it , although he sometimes had considerable difficulty in making it go . |
| 27 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 28 | By letting me go , she is merely increasing her power , for she is outmartyring my martyrdom . |
| 29 | It was the sort of thing she 'd do , thinking it wrong to punish a boy by making him go hungry . |
| 30 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |