Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen …
2 If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them .
3 The legs and hips have the largest muscles in the body : let them set the rhythm , then let the arms follow that rhythm .
4 So , three ca get there on time , let them set the clock by you , people are more forgiving for somebody I think if you are a little bit late , than if you 're too early .
5 Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) .
6 William Gaminara 's Back up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers , at the Hampstead Theatre , is an example of what is by now a well-established genre — a play about the cut-throat world of a group of salesmen .
7 let them pull a cow collar , wi it was what they call cow collar learn , the way to learn them .
8 Let them do the attacking .
9 If you 've got children let them do the work survive the parents , erm as long as they 're the sensible sort who can do it and are n't going to fall out with parents and are going to be round .
10 It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore .
11 Let them show the enemy that they were not the only ones who could attack by sea ; and show also that the Scots could do it in less blundering fashion .
12 Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions .
13 Let them watch the Masters in action and re-live Fred Couples ' thrilling victory earlier this year on the Augusta Masters video from The Video Collection ( £10.99 ) .
14 So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung .
15 Lisa , Lisa , Lisa , buys all the balloons , let them blow the balloons up , she goes alright who buys the balloons ?
16 Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to .
17 I think we should look at parking spaces , because in the past we 've felt that if the universities and colleges have parking spaces we let them bring the traffic in the City .
18 Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing .
19 ‘ You let them learn a lot of experience through themselves , ’ one of the older officers said .
20 Let them learn the lessons of capitalism the hard way .
21 Yeah I was just saying , let them know no where we going then ?
22 If you become pregnant you should tell your Social Security office and let them know the date your baby is due , so that you can get tokens for seven pints or eight half-litres of milk each week for yourself until your baby is born .
23 The agency 's own staff gave water and blankets to hunger strikers and let them use the office telephone .
24 You let them use the phone . ’
25 ‘ And you let them use the income off that ?
26 Let them squeeze the old man 's balls , then .
27 Whether they were believers BC , I have no idea , but a corollary to their belief must be , why did ‘ God ’ let them get the disease in the first place ?
28 Let them find the treasure and bring it aboard — then we 'll see .
29 I can hear Victor asking what I 'd do if I started losing the fight ; let them kick me about while all the time I could stop them ; let them find the gun ?
30 Just le lea you 're leading them home so let them pick a bit of grass and then you go on into the yard and I 'll give them the breakfast , they have their breakfast and while they 're eating their breakfast you 're doing your horse and you get finished and then you go and have yours .
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