Example sentences of "[adv] let [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 2 | Disgust vibrated in her voice as she suddenly let go of some clearly banked-up and held-back emotion . |
| 3 | A neat passage of midfield play involving Russell , Cunningham and Tony Shepherd end with Davidson making an incisive run ; as Glens defenders waited for a pass the little full-back suddenly let fly with his right foot , squeezing the ball past Grace . |
| 4 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 5 | In other words you must use your powers of thought alone to let go of any tension that you may feel . |
| 6 | And you 'd better let go of my wrist . |
| 7 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 8 | Now just let go of me , all right ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said quietly , ‘ if you just let go of me , I 'll forget this ever happened . |
| 10 | The Indians , whose faith in Australian umpires waned throughout the tour , were aggrieved again when Marsh , short of his ground , was not given out ( Prabhakar soon let fly with a second — no-balled — bouncer ) . |
| 11 | Do it again to make sure you did not just let go of the stick in fright ! |
| 12 | She would tell him anything he wanted to know if he would just let go of her , let her get away from him . |
| 13 | You 've got 1,800 people in a theatre you ca n't just let go to your grief , you learn to cut yourself off . |
| 14 | Now that she was going to stay on in France for a while and not go back to her old school , she 'd already let go of those friends . |
| 15 | If she ever let go of her control , she 'd go crazy . |
| 16 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 17 | Miranda nearly let go of the cup she was carrying . |
| 18 | ‘ About what she nearly let happen to you ? ’ |
| 19 | Now let go of the tension as you breathe out with a sigh of relief . |
| 20 | And the Bellingham pigs really let fly along the course . |
| 21 | Help me Lord now to let go of those things where I still nurse anger and resentment , And , loving Father , please bring your gentle healing to my sensitive and painful inner world . |
| 22 | He was really letting go at last , she thought happily . |
| 23 | right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Please let go of me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Fen , ’ she pleaded , ‘ please let go of me . |
| 26 | ‘ Argol , ’ he said , ‘ please let go of my head ! |
| 27 | PLEASE let know about any unsold tickets by Friday 8th November . |
| 28 | Ruth stayed still , kneeling on the yellow shore , and presently let go of Fand 's dead hand . |
| 29 | Boswell here lets fly with a breath-taking assumption that country folk had a lonely , miserable time : ‘ I had a most disagreeable [ that is to say distressing ] notion of the life of a country gentleman , ’ and he left Mr Fraser , he said , ‘ as one leaves a prisoner in a jail ’ . |
| 30 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |