Example sentences of "let [pers pn] in [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | There was an arched cartway into the yard , and a narrow wicket let them in through the thick oak portal to the cobbled court , ringed round with stables and storehouses . |
2 | The gatekeeper , recognising Cranston , let them in without a word . |
3 | So , while I stood off their changes and challenges with the right hand , I let them in with the left . |
4 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
5 | You either let them in for two reasons . |
6 | And presently , as Jack held the paddle like a brake and let them in by inches , a third , without petals , a pale disc trailing tendrils of weed . |
7 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |
8 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
9 | So let me in on the secret . |
10 | ‘ … so long as you let me in on all the details . ’ |
11 | ‘ Let me in on this mystery that surrounds Corosini . |
12 | They let you in without singing but you wo n't be let out . |
13 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |
14 | The chappie who let you in at the front door was Norman he 's form Salford East . |
15 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
16 | Christ , why had AD let him in for this ? |
17 | Jekyll 's servant , Poole , let him in at once and took him through the kitchen and across the back garden to the laboratory behind the house . |
18 | So after the combine had been I used to open the two gates to the field ; let 'em in through one and drive 'em almost straight away out through the other . ’ |
19 | She bowed in her turn to an irresistible force and let us in with raised eyebrows and an air of power suspended , not abdicated . |
20 | A lay brother let us in through a postern gate where others took care of our horses and baggage . |
21 | In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life . |
22 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |