Example sentences of "let [noun sg] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fucking let milk boil over the other night and I ca n't get it off . |
| 2 | But she never let fame go to her head . |
| 3 | I think if you let development rip for the want of a better word in North Yorkshire , as I suggest the House Builders Federation would do , then it would be active acting against the regeneration strategy . |
| 4 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 5 | Let patent go to your feet |
| 6 | No one is quite sure whether Baxter 's stories are fact or fiction but like that other legendary wordsmith , the former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly , Slim Jim never let reality get in the way of a good yarn . |
| 7 | And it cleverly let pressure dissipate by allowing several months pass before revealing the commission 's findings . |
| 8 | Concentrate on the truth , advised Eric Gill , and let beauty look after itself . |
| 9 | Again , the requirements of the National Curriculum will make minimalist approaches to record keeping difficult to sustain , let atone justify to parents . |
| 10 | No moving : Let time close over us like water … over this world , let the even surface of time close once again … |
| 11 | But Palmer 's log that day contains a significant remark : ‘ Bart [ Czirr ] suggests that we use palladium as the metal cathode as it has the ability to let hydrogen diffuse through it at will . |
| 12 | Also , if you have a water-course , such as a ditch or a brook , in or near your garden , be careful not to let fertiliser get into it . |
| 13 | But , as Hoet , Baere , Tazzi and I discussed the exhibition , at a certain point it became clear that one of the best ways to talk about art is to let art speak for itself . |
| 14 | Madness and Civilization was such a study , but the assumption that it was possible simply to lift the repression and to let otherness speak for itself was questioned by Derrida in his well-known critique , ‘ Cogito and the History of Madness ’ . |
| 15 | The way this works has been once more illuminated by Mr Frye , who notes that though the line from Charles Kingsley 's ballad about the ‘ cruel , crawling foam ’ ( which swallows a girl drowned by accident ) could be censured by rationalistic critics as the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ — thinking nature is alive — what the phrase actually does is to let realism aspire for a second to higher modes , to give to the drowned Mary ‘ a faint coloring of the myth of Andromeda ’ . |
| 16 | If only people would realize that all she wanted was freedom : freedom to think and act for herself , freedom to let life happen to her , instead of having to shape it to her parent 's expectations . |
| 17 | He says that the fire is being held in by the collapsed roof , they want to let air get to it so it will burn itself out . |
| 18 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 19 | When Zweig would n't come , Strauss lost his temper and wrote the famous letter attacking all politicians and everyone who lets politics get in the way of art . |
| 20 | There is , however , more than just a need ; for there is fundamental necessity for vision at all levels of human affairs ; all groups of people , even small teams as well as nations , must have a vision , or everything subsides into confusion and what is worse , lets power fall into the hands of practical , and unseeing men who press only their own interests , leading to strife and despair . |
| 21 | It seemed that Wilkins , and other Copernicans , allowed certain astronomical discoveries to confirm the truth of Scripture , but they would not let Scripture pronounce on matters of astronomy . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't let colour get in the way of right and wrong . ’ |
| 23 | The 987 will let HP compete against the whole AS/400 family and gives the company added ammunition to continue its assault on the downsizing mainframe market . |
| 24 | It 's all part of the schools ' ethos — do n't let blindness get in your way . |
| 25 | And when he returned to the college , he told the students they must n't let blindness get in the way of their creativity . |
| 26 | You should not let radio happen to you , you should n't let any of the media happen to you . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't let Dad hear for God 's sake , ’ she moaned quietly , as all her inhibitions went out of the window . |