Example sentences of "to let [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obliquely the Shah had agreed to let them start some planning ; it began just as he left for Egypt . |
| 2 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 3 | There were days when the leaders of the band refused to let them light any kind of fire in case German patrols found them and yet they somehow still had to produce food that the men could eat . |
| 4 | You have time to let them get used to you . |
| 5 | ‘ You going to let me know first ? ’ |
| 6 | She was afraid to let me go free , because I have friends in England . |
| 7 | I 've written macros to let me print each label with a unique number , set page lengths to the size of the labels plus the gutter between them — in short , I spent too long sorting the problem out , certainly more time than it was worth . |
| 8 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 9 | So I got him to let me write another letter . |
| 10 | to let me work this out what the distance was as time went on . |
| 11 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 12 | ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast . |
| 13 | ‘ You wo n't forget to let me have that note about Artemis Kostika , will you ? ’ |
| 14 | The housekeeper at the rectory said that they have a splendid display of late June roses this year and offered to let me have some . |
| 15 | He refuses to let me have another go which I think is outrageous and tell him so . |
| 16 | By the way , you should ask Chief Wetherby to let you watch next time a submarine comes back from patrol . |
| 17 | Why do n't you ask Mrs Ellworthy to let you make some of that nice porridge of yours . |
| 18 | I 'm not going to let you mess that up . |
| 19 | We talked it over and I 've decided to let you 'ave five pounds . |
| 20 | Its main raison d'etre is to let you do silly , impressive and even downright offensive things to your boring old Windows icons and the desktop . |
| 21 | Am I to let you do this to her ? ’ |
| 22 | Chapter 2 aimed to let you learn some things about yourself and to discover what kind of area you might feel happiest and most fulfilled working in . |
| 23 | After all , he has shown enough confidence in you to let you organise this part of his company 's expenditure . |
| 24 | Some day , when you 've time , ask one of the Sister Tutors to let you have one of the copies of the Casualty records for the last hundred years . |
| 25 | Suddenly her daughter telephoned me and said , ‘ My mother asked if you could come as she has agreed to let you have those two things you wanted . |
| 26 | I just want to let you know that chief among my criticisms of this report , it is is that it is a total insult to all of you , who give of your time freely to a unique cause to which we all belong . |
| 27 | As one who went through this situation recently , I ‘ feel ’ for you and I just wanted to let you know this . |
| 28 | She tried to ease her hand out from under his but met with a resistance that could only have been overcome by struggling , and pride refused to let her do that . |
| 29 | But then , even as a child she 'd usually persuade him to let her do this or that against his better judgement . |
| 30 | Why did you have to let her read that ? ’ |