Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] slip " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted . |
| 2 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 3 | ‘ Somebody might have let slip something , they would n't have let loose every detail . ’ |
| 4 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 5 | He turned towards the stove so that she should n't see the flush of shame and dismay that he had let slip Berowne 's name . |
| 6 | He had let slip he was married . |
| 7 | He was angry with himself for what he had let slip . |
| 8 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |
| 9 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |