Example sentences of "to let him [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that she was weakening , she told herself , it would just be simpler to let him move the bureau . |
| 2 | Beesley , adept in any emergency , counterfeited the pass required to let him board the facsimile Titanic , dressed himself in period costume ( can echoes prove the truth of the thing being echoed ? ) and installed himself among the extras . |
| 3 | On the second occasion an inspector recognised his van and refused to let him unload the stock . |
| 4 | On the second occasion an inspector recognised his van and re fused to let him unload the stock . |
| 5 | He sat up alongside her , but she refused to look at him , refused to let him witness the wet film over her eyes . |
| 6 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 7 | He had therefore decided to be as charming as possible to her during the summer holiday in Italy — as soon as he had managed to persuade her to let him join the family there . |
| 8 | The servants had not been keen to let him see the man , but his rank and vague remarks about the importance of co-operation with the Grand Army had succeeded in securing him an interview . |
| 9 | ‘ Can I help you ? ’ she asked , trying not to let him see the amusement in her blue eyes . |
| 10 | Now was her chance to let him see the image of herself that everyone else saw . |
| 11 | ‘ Everybody needs a base , ’ she had returned lightly , refusing to let him dull the excitement she had felt ever since finding the farmhouse . |
| 12 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 13 | pure , pure and simply to let him get a sleep . |
| 14 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 15 | He signed the deal in February , persuaded Morgan Grenfell to let him buy the company Jag and left the City to become a mini-captain of industry . |
| 16 | And right up until that time Fred Hann , managing director of FWH , was urging English Estates to let him buy the freehold of his Nelson Street warehouse . |
| 17 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 18 | Er you want to let him have a look |
| 19 | Spencer managed to persuade Tony Bianchi to let him have an hour-and-a-half in a Harvard , by way of working up to his most impressive taildragger to date … |
| 20 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 21 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |
| 22 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |