Example sentences of "[vb infin] let me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 2 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 3 | Still , I suppose I ca n't complain : you could have let me drown , after all . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’ |
| 5 | He picked up the receiver , and without identifying himself just said , ‘ Could n't you have let me have an hour ? |
| 6 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
| 7 | She should have let me prescribe for her ; I know an excellent liniment … " |
| 8 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 9 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 10 | You should have let me fall , like your friend . |
| 11 | Dad would n't have let me , but he held back because he did n't want to upset Mum and I took advantage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 13 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 14 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You should have let me kill him ! ’ |
| 16 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |
| 17 | You should have let me go . ’ |
| 18 | Or she 'd have let me know . |
| 19 | If you 'd have let me in I could have washed your back for you . |
| 20 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 21 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 22 | If you 'd have let me know I could have |
| 23 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |