Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The right hon. Gentleman wants people to let him spend their money rather than spending it themselves .
2 He found that drivers no longer tried to overtake him and that policemen stopped traffic to let him pass .
3 The Indians accordingly , with every kind of entreaty , implored Alexander to let no-one molest the animal .
4 We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight .
5 I 've written macros to let me print each label with a unique number , set page lengths to the size of the labels plus the gutter between them — in short , I spent too long sorting the problem out , certainly more time than it was worth .
6 If the Foreign Secretary is ready to say that he will veto such a treaty , I shall give way to let him do so .
7 And we would like people to let us know what they think .
8 So she begged Jack to let her go for a swim , as it was so hot that day , out to the reef , where she could find the weed she needed in fresh , young supply .
9 It 's beautiful to think there 's a man who spends his life going from hotel to hotel , paying chambermaids to let him look in beds slept in by women , in the hope of finding some hairs !
10 ‘ I should have told Walter to let him go . ’
11 He had n't had time to let it go . ’
12 And we have n't got time to let them find out .
13 I think it depends , if , if it 's red , whether you 've got time to let it breathe properly , and if it 's white whether it 's got time to , to be chilled properly .
14 But I 've decided to press Tweed to let you come with me .
15 So the laibon 's son from up there , up the valley past Lengai , he is a descendant of Mbatian , the great laibon , he tries to persuade Turnbull to let him take out his animal from the ones which have been selected . ‘
16 Get Froebe to let us have Richmann .
17 She ought to phone Arnie to let him know she was back , but he was the last person she felt like speaking to right now .
18 Gerard Kierans , UK Artistic Director of the Graham Webb group of salons , says : ‘ Coloured hair can change in the sun so we always ask clients to let us know when they 're going away .
19 Elvis had travelled back to the dawn of mankind and persuaded God to let him do it his way .
20 She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes .
21 Jonas bribes Slyme to let him kill himself to cheat the gallows .
22 Having said nothing about the er the charity erm erm the meeting on erm the meetings four times a year and we 're quite but there are some available for erm people erm and particularly to erm we agreed a list of people who wished to give them Christmas gifts , cash but I 'm sure they would help and and erm the names of people who who might need help er are always welcome so if I could just erm erm ask people to let me know if they know of anyone financial help .
23 You have time to let them get used to you .
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