Example sentences of "they let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 3 | But it 's important , for what we 're going to be thinking of this morning to re , keep that little phrase in mind that Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side , there was purpose in going into that boat . |
| 4 | If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on . |
| 5 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 6 | I 've gone to the nuns and begged them to let me have a child , but they say ‘ You are a prostitute . |
| 7 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 8 | Issue : Will Arabel persuade them to let her look after it ? |
| 9 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 10 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |
| 11 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 12 | I 'd hired a team of private investigators to keep an eye on you after your house was ransacked , and I was just ringing through to them to let them know where you were . ’ |
| 13 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 14 | Need somebody to talk to the D T I , since this was a D T I funded project , why do n't we get them to let us record i a meeting or two . |
| 15 | we need to write them , warn yeah , and we ask them to let us know what they 've got planned do n't we ? |
| 16 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |
| 17 | ‘ Why have they let us come so far ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Some people have to get wildly angry before they let themselves feel anything . ’ |
| 19 | I was surprised they let him do that . |
| 20 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 21 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 22 | Richard Gough is unmatched by any current English central defender and Spurs must still be cursing the day they let him go . |
| 23 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 24 | When they were satisfied that there was no more to be got they let him go . |
| 25 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 26 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 27 | Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable . |
| 28 | They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts . |
| 29 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 30 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |