Example sentences of "let out [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was let out between eight and half-past in the morning , locked back in at dinner time , let out to do the washing up and scrub the kitchen floor in the afternoon , and then locked up again . |
| 2 | and so on , every month their money is straight into the bank all their cheques come in straight into the bank so he 'll , you know , and I mean our pla , and the whole of the site nearly is let out for different people , you know , which is money coming in all the time |
| 3 | About agoraphobia and claustrophobia and the paradoxical desire to be let out into unconfined space , the wild moorland , the open ground , and at the same time to be closed into tighter and tighter impenetrable small spaces — like Emily Dickinson 's voluntary confinement , like the Sibyl 's jar . |
| 4 | Quigley ran towards me like a kid let out of primary school . |
| 5 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 6 | At his firm 's headquarters in Portview ( within Belfast Harbour 's enterprise zone , off the M2 motorway 's Fortwilliam interchange ) Alan Campbell has created a purpose-built complex comprising offices and warehouses , some of which are let out to other companies . |
| 7 | Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants — another aspect of crown patronage . |
| 8 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |
| 9 | When are we let out of these rooms ? ’ |