Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The initial response of Bishop Crowley immediately after his appointment was ‘ Let me say immediately how glad I am to be here ’ . |
| 5 | I said I would fast unless he let me come upstairs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All I can do is let you know nearer the time if this is the case . |
| 13 | But I should never have let you slip away so easily . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If she let herself believe even a word of that then she would be just as bad as they were ! |
| 16 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 17 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |
| 18 | All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's because you 've let him get away , ’ Whitlock snarled but the policeman snapped at him to face the front when he tried to look round . |
| 20 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 21 | She let him get away with it . |
| 22 | She let him know also that she was a virgin and wanted to save it for someone special . |
| 23 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 24 | Why , oh , why had he let her go so easily and why , oh , why was he doing this to her now ? |
| 25 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 26 | If you 've let her get away from us , the only cut you 'll get is with this . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever else he had left her , Ember ( the name was oddly freighted with inferences of his mass , his power , the clean safe smell of him ) had let her know indirectly that they were a threat . |
| 28 | ABBERLEY : You 've let her rot away . |
| 29 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 30 | He let her go reluctantly . |