Example sentences of "let him [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let him stay here because of you . |
| 2 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
| 3 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 4 | Let him cool off . |
| 5 | But note Paul 's qualifying words , ‘ If the unbeliever leaves , let him do so . |
| 6 | If a student wishes to use them , by all means let him do so without hesitation . |
| 7 | Erm so you probably think , oh he 's got it now , you 've done two or three of them , let him do about ten of them , what 's six add one ? |
| 8 | One has one 's pride said the house , let him sleep somewhere less grand , he 's only a tramp . |
| 9 | He watched George going into MacDougalls , let him settle down for three minutes and then he 'd strike . |
| 10 | Still , if it helped to restore his own estimation of himself , let him think otherwise . |
| 11 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 12 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 13 | No let him finish okay , we 're gon na let him finish . |
| 14 | I let him talk on about harriers and divers and skuas and all the rare and marvellous birds that would no doubt be waiting around to be photographed , and then put in the usual cautious query : ‘ And Ruth ? ’ |
| 15 | I let him talk on . |
| 16 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 17 | no one , two , three , four , five , once I caught a fish alive , six , seven , eight , nine , ten , then I let him go again |
| 18 | Let him go away content , satisfied that this solution offered in terrible good faith by Jerome had been accepted without question by all , and that he himself was quite secure . |
| 19 | Let him go upstairs . |
| 20 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 21 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 22 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Let him walk home ca n't you mum ? |
| 24 | They simply opened the prison gates and let him walk out . |
| 25 | For the second question and answer we did n't even bother to load the camera , though as a matter of courtesy , we let him carry on bawling . |
| 26 | Well that 's well let him play otherwise he 'll have that funny turn . |
| 27 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 28 | You mean you let him get away ? ’ |
| 29 | Oh God , she prayed , beseeching a deity that was only something her father swore by , never something believed , let him get away . |
| 30 | You always let him get away things ! |