Example sentences of "[vb past] let [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee felt jealous , lumpy , and tried to let go of the feeling as she arranged the flowers in the kitchen . |
| 2 | It is now also dawning on us that , while they may have dropped their hippie beads and trinkets , they failed to let go of their new world view . |
| 3 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 4 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 5 | as if he had let go of oars and rudder and now drifted on the dark current of events . |
| 6 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 7 | His expression lightening a little once he had let go of her , he pulled a penny from his pocket , and said cheerfully , ‘ We 'll toss for white . |
| 8 | On the screen they had let go of the puerto Rican mass murderer 's trousers and he was on his way to the sidewalk , head first , at about seventy miles an hour . |
| 9 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 10 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 11 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 12 | She roamed back thoughtfully into childhood memories , hunting for the little clues her mother and grandmother had let fall about him , and the sum of them all was remarkably meagre . |
| 13 | I had to let go of her , I had to . |
| 14 | I had to let go of separatism . |
| 15 | The monster grabbed Ron Duguid , 26 , by the arm and refused to let go despite being shot by a speargun . |
| 16 | Brave Nicola Wilkinson , who refused to let go of 12-month-old Kristian Watson , said : ‘ I just hung on as tightly as I could . ’ |