Example sentences of "who let " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no patience with women who let themselves go . ’ |
| 2 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 3 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 4 | Rulers who let their hearts rule their heads tended to court disaster , be they male or female ; and there have been plenty of examples of both . |
| 5 | Your ma probably worked here same as everybody else and fell for somebody who let her down , and that 's all there is to it . |
| 6 | Who let you buy the safety net and all the equipment in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | There Zborowski rented rooms for them all from Papa Curel , an elderly eccentric who let out rooms in his villas and ‘ knew all about artists . ’ |
| 8 | The person who was most patient with him was Alison , who let him read his poems to her and sometimes took him out to lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 10 | Pull it off and you 're a hero , back out and you 'll always be remembered as the guy who let the perfect wave go by . ’ |
| 11 | He was one of those prime ministers in Cabinet who let everyone talk — too much sometimes . ’ |
| 12 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 13 | Centaury : Weakness of will ; those who let themselves be exploited or imposed upon — become subservient ; difficulty in saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 14 | The goalkeeper on that fateful day in ‘ 54 was Fred Martin of Aberdeen , a talented but unfortunate keeper who let in another seven goals the following year against England at Wembley . |
| 15 | THE TRIAL of technicians who let the chemical works at Seveso in northern Italy run out of control seven years ago , scattering 300 grams of dioxin across the district , opened on Monday in Monza , Italy . |
| 16 | That 's what you 'd expect from some of the bitter old farts who used to fill the magazine with self-indulgent whimsy about lawnmowers and the ex-colonial buffers who let their subscriptions lapse when India was granted independence . |
| 17 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 18 | SOCCER star Paul Gascoigne flew back to his ransacked Italian villa yesterday — to tick off the guard dog who let in raiders . |
| 19 | This helps landlords who let without opting and later realise that opting is advisable . |
| 20 | If you have visitors who let the cover droop helplessly , like a child raised by one arm and dangling in mid-air , cross them off your visiting list so far as your books are concerned . |
| 21 | She felt a boiling rage about the Westwards , the family who cut off their own flesh and blood , who let her be raised by the charity of the nuns and never bothered themselves to think that she was now of university age . |
| 22 | But , who let them loose in the launderette |
| 23 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 24 | ‘ And maybe that makes it more conducive to all these women who let our female species down . |
| 25 | The porter 's wife who let us in might be worth talking to . |
| 26 | I was the one who let you in . |
| 27 | It was he who let the kidnapper in before he left for work . |
| 28 | In 1858 , the Society received the collection of the bankrupt New York Gallery of Fine Arts , founded in 1844 by wealthy grocer Luman Reed , who let the public visit his private house for a fee . |
| 29 | Under the government 's new Rent-a-Room scheme , tenants and owner-occupiers who let furnished rooms in their only of main home may now be excused tax on rent up to £3,250 . |
| 30 | And so the House of Industry became the workhouse for the whole union ; it remained the property of the Board of Directors , who let the building and the front garden to the Poor Law Guardians for £280 per annum . |