Example sentences of "[v-ing] to let " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TORY councillor caused an outcry at a housing committee meeting yesterday when she warned of ‘ the floodgates opening to let all the immigrants in . ’ |
| 2 | After 1962 , when Macmillan persuaded President Kennedy at the Nassau meeting to let him have Polaris , the British space effort lost the committed patronage of the Ministry of Defence . |
| 3 | ‘ Leithia Everett here , ’ Leith announced formally , and without pausing to let the secretary get a word in , had she been going to , ‘ Would you give Mr Massingham my apologies , please ? |
| 4 | The older woman stood up and the two of them embraced , holding each other tightly , neither wanting to let go , united in their grief and also in their determination . |
| 5 | His arms held her tightly to him as if never wanting to let go . |
| 6 | That left plenty of room for those wanting to let themselves go . |
| 7 | if they go , if they 're wanting to let people have as much money |
| 8 | Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical : |
| 9 | But both Kylie and Waterman ignored the incident , refusing to let it cloud her triumph . |
| 10 | At Middlesbrough , the Hugh Bell School was partially evacuated to Pickering , North Yorkshire , a number of parents refusing to let their children be evacuated . |
| 11 | Or refusing to let go of something you no longer need ? ) |
| 12 | ‘ I know that I am dying , ’ he said , ‘ and I am so angry with God for letting it happen , and with my family for refusing to let me work through it . ’ |
| 13 | They are refusing to let little Lucy stay with her 42 classmates despite medical evidence that a move could be traumatic . |
| 14 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 16 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Information has long been refusing to let any journalist visit Tikrit , the town where Saddam was born . |
| 18 | ‘ Having let the side down already by not being able to give Wendy a baby myself , I did n't feel I could let it down further by refusing to let her try AID . |
| 19 | Indeed , she comments of the story of Jacob at Jabbok , that the ‘ man ’ with whom he wrestles is deity ; and , of Jacob , on his ‘ refusing to let the man go unless he blesses him ’ . |
| 20 | He 'll love helping to sort the washing , too , running off with his own jumper and refusing to let go . |
| 21 | She tried to draw back , but his hands came up and gripped her , refusing to let her go . |
| 22 | For a moment , he held her close , refusing to let her go . |
| 23 | ‘ Other than dying , nothing more terrible than one of your kind getting her claws into him and then refusing to let go over all the years he spent struggling to free himself . ’ |
| 24 | Fighting an impulse to back away , Gina forced herself to hold her ground , refusing to let him see how his nearness made the hairs on the back of her neck rise in anticipation of conflict . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 26 | Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine . |
| 27 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 28 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 29 | ‘ I have seen a few busy streets in my life , ’ Shae said quietly , sure she was being baited , but refusing to let herself rise to it . |
| 30 | Shannon managed a smile , refusing to let the woman see she was affected in any way by her taunting . |