Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he let me kiss his hand . |
| 32 | She let me film her . |
| 33 | He let them lead him away , straight ahead between the rows of cauldrons . |
| 34 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 35 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 36 | ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’ |
| 37 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 38 | Ashamed of wanting her , ashamed of having let himself start their affair , Luke was no happier with it than she was . |
| 39 | For a moment he let himself imagine he was some great explorer about to enter a hostile , unknown land on which his name would later be stamped for all history . |
| 40 | ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’ |
| 41 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 42 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 43 | MI5 has n't let you know it . |
| 44 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 45 | The C B one says I 've only just let you have it ! |
| 46 | I 'm surprised that he let you believe he was . |
| 47 | ‘ And she let you keep me ? ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Of course , he let you see him . |
| 49 | But her father came in and oh , he was knowledgeable too and he let one know it . |
| 50 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 51 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 52 | This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty . |
| 53 | You 've let him court you , after all . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Forget it — I 'm not talking to you in your suite ! ’ she snapped , chagrined by the way she had let him lead her . |
| 55 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 56 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 57 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 58 | If I had n't heard that whisper , I 'd have let him do what he wanted — anything he wanted — right here and now . |
| 59 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 60 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |