Example sentences of "let out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market .
2 If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member .
3 There are soft , flat miaows to be let out of the house and pitiful , drawn-out miaows to be let in again when it starts raining .
4 Sex is like the cat that is let out of the bag : once out it is difficult to put back .
5 Use the same command , preferably at a relatively early stage once the dog has settled down after being let out of the car , or off the leash .
6 She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day .
7 With each step more things can be let out of the pound ; exact discussions can be made less abstract , realistic discussions can be made less inexact than was possible at an earlier stage .
8 I myself had let out of the sink ,
9 ‘ If he gave his parole he might be let out of the walls , ’ said David with no great conviction .
10 There is now light at the end of the runnel as the contracts are let out in the final stage this month .
11 And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak .
12 She herself knew she could not have made much of a showing , bulky as she was , wearing the Peter Robinson gown , let out at the seams , her state disguised only by a light scarf .
13 He said that after 1983 , Mrs Scott and her daughter decided to live in the kitchen with the dogs — which were never let out of the house — to stop them fighting .
14 Tell him it 's the sort of thing no woman would want let out of the bag .
15 The very private little operation had been well and truly let out of the bag .
16 Some evenings , we left our husbands to mind the children and went to the Palais or to the skating-rink , tearing round and round like young colts let out in the meadow .
17 She 's probably been worrying what family secrets I 'd let out of the bag .
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