Example sentences of "they let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why have they let us come so far ? ’ |
| 2 | I was surprised they let him do that . |
| 3 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 4 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 5 | Richard Gough is unmatched by any current English central defender and Spurs must still be cursing the day they let him go . |
| 6 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 7 | When they were satisfied that there was no more to be got they let him go . |
| 8 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 9 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 10 | Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable . |
| 11 | They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts . |
| 12 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 13 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |
| 14 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 15 | Because they let him pick them up . |
| 16 | They let him have his degree , of course , out of pure charity . |
| 17 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 18 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 19 | They let him come and he wo n't get any biscuits . |
| 20 | They let her pass . |
| 21 | But there was never anyone else there when they let her go that far . |
| 22 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 23 | they let her go on too long and it |
| 24 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 25 | Dressed in flowing trousers and a tunic of billowing rose — they let her have clothes , now , providing she chose them herself by drawing what it was she wanted — she spent hours sitting at the table in the artificial sun over the balcony , the day 's book-cube dangling forgotten from her fingers . |
| 26 | They let her keep that part of herself , though much else changed . |
| 27 | And Rosie , Susan , Heather , Katie , Clara and Isabel could not resist her either ; they let her join them , weakly , unable to refuse such primitive intention . |
| 28 | ’ They kidnapped Richard ‘ and smytinge the said Margerie so being with childe that she fell downe as a dead woman there they let her lye , the which was the cause of the saide childe 's deth . ’ |
| 29 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 30 | ‘ … and after the lesson , they let me give the horse a drink . ’ |