Example sentences of "back [coord] let [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I must go , " she said , in such a way that her niece shrank back and let her pass . |
| 2 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 3 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 4 | He stood back and let me turn . |
| 5 | Go back and let me but , yeah , I mean that 's the idea . |
| 6 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
| 7 | I 'm driving along and there was somebody coming round and it was a bit narrow and so I hung back and let him come through |
| 8 | I stood back and let them pass — |
| 9 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 10 | I stand back and let them in . |
| 11 | Sixty years ago when the Nazis began their attacks on Jews and foreigners , ordinary citizens stood back and let it happen . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 13 | There 's no way we 'll sit back and let him continue in this way . |
| 14 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 15 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 16 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 17 | it 'll be nice when these are grown up and you can sit back and let them wait on you |
| 18 | I decided to lie back and let it happen , and put it down to ‘ supernature ’ ; I 've witnessed it before . |
| 19 | This is mind-boggling black-comic stuff , but Holland , perhaps overwhelmed by the weight of the Holocaust taking place just out of frame , seems to sit back and let it happen . |
| 20 | ‘ You can not sit back and let it happen . |
| 21 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |
| 23 | All these analogies present a picture of God setting the process up ( creating ) , and then effectively sitting back and letting it continue of its own accord . |