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 . |