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 .
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