Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [verb] a " 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 let them pull a cow collar , wi it was what they call cow collar learn , the way to learn them .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ You let them learn a lot of experience through themselves , ’ one of the older officers said .
7 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 .
8 Let them have a prospectus to take away with them and if they have already decided to bring their child to your school take the minimum of details at this stage .
9 It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’
10 You 'd people think it 's easy let them have a go at it .
11 We 'll eat stra virtually fairly soon and then let them have a look at them .
12 Well , let them have a go at you , you do n't have to do what they say .
13 Let me open a new chapter and tell another story .
14 Finally , let me end a long , but hopefully not tedious , list of routes with a real gem from Skye .
15 And then Mr erm oh let me watch a Queen video .
16 Let me present a medley of these edifying yarns .
17 Let me let me cite a commercial organization which , to give you an idea , I know you 're not commercial in that particular sense , of what we 're talking about .
18 Let me outline a few of the obstacles :
19 So before you turn to your itinerary , let me explain a little further .
20 Chantal said : ‘ Let me telephone a friend of my father .
21 Let me suggest a new way to handle your clients .
22 All right , let me suggest a possibility .
23 They let me wear a maternity dress then , because I had n't worn one up till then .
24 Let me give a few illustrations .
25 Let me give a brief application .
26 To illustrate this approach , let me give a very simple example .
27 Let me give a classic example from another branch of biology .
28 Let me give a few examples : I can will knowledge but not wisdom ; going to bed but not sleeping ; eating but not hunger … self-assertion but not courage … reading but not understanding …
29 Let me give a concrete example of what I mean .
30 Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible .
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