Example sentences of "[adv] to let " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said nothing I can do , so to let the police in . |
| 2 | I drew my feet in naturally to let them pass , but he called out : ‘ No , leave your feet there ! ’ |
| 3 | Frozen in shock for a few seconds , she recovered her wits sufficiently to let out an outraged scream , and to catapult into a kneeling position , grabbing the bedspread to cover herself . |
| 4 | Mistake was perhaps to let Moira F. see it at this stage , he wrote . |
| 5 | This was a new Joan : another of these modern women with their new language and new dreams who could follow where she had led , if she were generous enough to let them fight their own battles . |
| 6 | So in an effort to find out whether are blind , or they 're just weird , we asked a member of a party of visitors from Tokyo , Miss Takishima , to be kind enough to let us process the film in her camera . |
| 7 | Does she trust you enough to let you be present though ? ’ |
| 8 | They came across a case of English pottery and porcelain on one of their sorties and were good enough to let me know about it . |
| 9 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |
| 10 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 11 | If you start to feel sorry enough to let someone else win , you lose your honesty . |
| 12 | Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died . |
| 13 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 14 | Now he was happy enough to let Rickards impose on his solitude to use him as a sounding board . |
| 15 | I love myself enough to let go . ’ |
| 16 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 17 | If friends are foolhardy but kind enough to let you loose in their gardens , it is a very nice idea to make them a small picture from some of the flowers you have gathered and subsequently pressed . |
| 18 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 19 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 20 | NOW you can see the fearsome fighters of the WWF in your own home — if you 're brave enough to let in a muscular gang of mighty strong men . |
| 21 | Trainer Henry Cecil , however , was satisfied enough to let All At Sea take on the likes of Arazi and Ireland 's Brief Truce . |
| 22 | Every Benedict 's nurse was warned of the consequences to herself if she were fool enough to let herself get emotionally involved with a male patient , before she left the P.T.S. Briefly , it was the quickest way out . |
| 23 | The ‘ in ’ computer changes with the ‘ latest ’ game — they will be happy with whatever you get ( if you are foolish enough to let them get their hands on it ! ) . |
| 24 | Long before the sky dimmed enough to let the stars through , I lit the gas burner and ate baked beans off a paper plate and finished off with tea and biscuits . |
| 25 | Through the close-mesh fence topped by razor wire he could see the wide double doors large enough to let a three-ton lorry into the huge earth mound . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps you would be good enough to let her answer for herself . ’ |
| 27 | While X/Open Co Ltd welcomed Novell Inc 's letter of intent to buy Unix System Labs Inc , it was apparently not impressed enough to let them carry over USL 's membership by default . |
| 28 | The holes must be big enough to let the animals pass through them . |
| 29 | The loud tugging and pulling that followed — the instructions from the Colonel , instructions from the landlord , banging of levers , banging of latches — eclipsed any small performance Mrs Crump might have been inclined to give and when the company was finally re-seated she was wise enough to let it pass . |
| 30 | He turned round often enough to let me know he was looking for me . |