Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 2 | If so let them carry on . |
| 3 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 4 | Let them go on thinking of you as una paloma . |
| 5 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 6 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 7 | In the end , I simply let them go on thinking what they wanted to think . ’ |
| 8 | But there is a sense in which , because people are living longer , er we tend to think , ‘ well , let them go on working ’ . |
| 9 | Let them dangle on to floor . |
| 10 | Oh well , let them get on with it . |
| 11 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 12 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 13 | The band are intelligent boys , they know what they are doing and we let them get on with it . |
| 14 | If they were really brother and sister , they were a strange pair , but that was nobody 's business but their own , and like all the other members of the company , Noreen just let them get on with it . |
| 15 | Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’ |
| 16 | Let them get on with it . |
| 17 | One , he recalls , told him : ‘ This is what people wanted — now let them get on with it . ’ |
| 18 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |
| 19 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 20 | His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ . |
| 21 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 22 | Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ? |
| 23 | I could not stop them , so I rather let them get on with it … |
| 24 | The guitar had no place here and the guitarist sat back with a grin , his back to the open case , and let them get on with it . |
| 25 | Turner let them get on with it . |
| 26 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 27 | I let them get on with it , and returned ten minutes later to find them " space-walking " . |
| 28 | You let them get on with it ! ’ |
| 29 | Let them get on with it and use their capabilities to the full . |
| 30 | Let them get on with it , ’ comes easily . |