Example sentences of "have let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 2 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |
| 3 | Perhaps I should have let them go . |
| 4 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 5 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 6 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 7 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 8 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 9 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 10 | If I had n't heard that whisper , I 'd have let him do what he wanted — anything he wanted — right here and now . |
| 11 | How could she have let him do that ? |
| 12 | You should never have let him leave . ’ |
| 13 | Wally will know , because the Profitboss would never have let him keep his job if he did n't . |
| 14 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 15 | ‘ I should have let him hit you properly ! ’ she snapped . |
| 16 | Phillis said , ‘ She would n't have let him touch me if she was here . ’ |
| 17 | We should n't have let him become chairman . |
| 18 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |
| 19 | You should have let him finger on . |
| 20 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 21 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 22 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 23 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 24 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
| 25 | Though when she might have let him know that she was quite able to make her own decisions , thank you very much , she remembered — she still wanted that interview with him . |
| 26 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 27 | You should have let me go . ’ |
| 28 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 29 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 30 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |