Example sentences of "let him [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 2 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 3 | He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy . |
| 4 | After the emperor had received all sorts of oaths from Lothar , he let him return to Italy . " |
| 5 | She let him go without further protest . |
| 6 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 7 | Once , when a messenger brought bad news to Cuchulain , the hero let him go in peace . |
| 8 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
| 9 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 10 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 11 | Whilst he has this weight advantage ( you get with youth ) Id let him run at defenders but especially the 2 central ones . |
| 12 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 13 | He say because you let him stay with you , that do n't make you whore . |
| 14 | Let him bleed to death ? |
| 15 | Let him spit in her mouth and breed toads . |
| 16 | Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts , and let him return to the Lord and he will have compassion on him . |
| 17 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 18 | ‘ No , let him sleep for now . |
| 19 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
| 20 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 21 | Next morning I let him sleep until midday . |
| 22 | So let him talk for himself if he had anything to say . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees . |
| 24 | ‘ Let him rest in peace . ’ |
| 25 | Sunderland , who travel to Blackburn on Wednesday night for their penultimate game of the season , had hoped to come to a compromise arrangement which would have enabled them to use Rogan against Swindon and then let him travel to Belfast before tomorrow night 's game . |
| 26 | Come on , let him go for goodness sake . |
| 27 | The Alcometer reading was negligible , so we let him go with a warning . ’ |
| 28 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
| 29 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 30 | Please let him go at once . |