Example sentences of "let people " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to have an intercom by the front door and only let people in by appointment . |
| 2 | The buzzword is ‘ empowerment ’ : let people manage their own affairs . |
| 3 | The practice is to let parents choose freely their children 's schools , let people buy their own homes , let public-housing tenants run their own estates . |
| 4 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You let people get to you too much , Lee . |
| 6 | I just never let people know I 'm doing it — I save it for behind closed doors . |
| 7 | Let people know your needs See Chapter 3 ( section on assertiveness , p. 105 ) |
| 8 | Let people know who you are , warts and all . |
| 9 | Express your support for others and let people know when you agree or disagree , giving reasons why . |
| 10 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 11 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
| 12 | Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance . |
| 13 | Yer let people cry of games for no good reason , 'cept that somebody close to 'em says they ca n't , and yer tolerate bad behaviour . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We bring what we believe is the best art , and let people see it in the light of their own country and in the light of their own culture ’ , he says . |
| 15 | Beyond that , governments should step back , and let people do the succeeding . |
| 16 | He lay back limp as a rag and let her do it , the way he always let people do things for him , not lifting a finger . |
| 17 | ‘ Once you let people get a foot in the d or there 's no end to it , ’ was what Mr Evans said . |
| 18 | I 've never been in jail and I never wan na find out what it 's like in jail but if you actually ever go to the police station , Harlow police station , they sometimes let people up there and do tours , no one likes being left in the cell cos when the door closes it 's very very small and it 's very claustrophobic , and it 's not very nice . |
| 19 | You let people do this sort of thing for their sake . |
| 20 | No one is pressured into buying ; I give my advice and then let people make their own choice . |
| 21 | I , I 'm going to have to have more than one meeting and let people , say you 've got to come to one or the other and have them at different times during the week . |
| 22 | She is not in the mood for gossip , unwilling to pass on her views of current films ( let people buy Outsider if they want to know the Rosenbloom line ) , and uncharacteristically indifferent to news of cheap Thai restaurants in Crouch End . |
| 23 | Make transition rituals the pivotal elements of change ( for example , let people mourn old ways yet re-negotiate new values ) |
| 24 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 25 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 26 | Yes , I mean we 're not in the position to do what some of the , certainly I know some of the banks do , which is to guarantee a job after five years , let people have five years , you know , the maternity leave plus a guaranteed job at the end of another four when the kids start school , on the proviso that you can call them in if you need them within that period , for a bit of extra help . |
| 27 | You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody . |
| 28 | I do n't think so , really it 's just the opposite problem of what we 've got over here , being submissive now we all know what being being sub submissive yes we let people walk all over us we do n't say yeah we we listen to what everybody else says and therefore the opposite is you 're gon na get aggressive to get what we want . |
| 29 | You might aswell forget about the police force and let people do what they like . |
| 30 | It was nice to take games to North and Midlands and Glasgow and let people see touring sides and top level games . |