Example sentences of "let they [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’
2 A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall .
3 ‘ But we played a couple of soft ends and let them back into it , ’ said Belliss later .
4 I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years !
5 I do n't even know whether they let them off at the head office .
6 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 .
7 The gatekeeper , recognising Cranston , let them in without a word .
8 So , while I stood off their changes and challenges with the right hand , I let them in with the left .
9 Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall …
10 You either let them in for two reasons .
11 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 .
12 So technology has advanced considerably , and what we 've done is to capitalise on the younger engineers and we 've introduced another phase called neighbourhood engineers and this is where we rely on the er goodwill of the firms to actually sa let their seconder engineers sometimes , but certainly let them out into the er into the schools careers convention work places to talk to the actual youngster itself .
13 He admits both his dogs have strayed in the past , after callers let them out of his garden .
14 He took big lungfuls of air and then let them out in great racking sobs that shook his whole body .
15 Now they let them out in the summertime to different people .
16 Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells .
17 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 . ’
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