Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 2 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 3 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 4 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 6 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |
| 7 | Le let me bring in Dr C er Vernon let me bring in Dr Cosmo here , Vernon . |
| 8 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 9 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 10 | I said I would fast unless he let me come upstairs . |
| 11 | Sometimes he let me tag along . |
| 12 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 13 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 14 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 15 | He let them go by . |
| 16 | Franca did not attempt to wipe away the tears , she let them roll down and drip onto the front of the apron which she was wearing over her brown dress . |
| 17 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 18 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 19 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 20 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 21 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |
| 22 | I should have let you choose where to go . |
| 23 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 24 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 25 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 26 | All I can do is let you know nearer the time if this is the case . |
| 27 | But I should never have let you slip away so easily . |
| 28 | She let herself drift off to memories of fiercely joyful nights that now … that now … |
| 29 | She had had enough of the blackout and the bombing and the shortages , and if she let herself think too much about the invasion she would become quite ill . |
| 30 | She let herself press back against him . |