Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] let [noun prp] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd borrowed the car from Biland 's mechanic and had to promise not to let Simon drive it .
2 Scott asked Oates to look after the ponies , but he did not let Oates buy them .
3 Claire resolves not to let John change the subject .
4 Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward .
5 Do n't let Dagmar get control ; I fear that above anything . ’
6 Do n't let Ryan destroy you , Leo had said , and now it was equally true of himself .
7 ‘ I want 5–0 on the scoreboard by half-time , ’ Drew told Rutshire , ‘ and do n't let Randy get loose . ’
8 Yeah well just do n't let Christine know .
9 Do n't let Emma hear you . ’
10 Do n't let Paul hear you suggest such a thing !
11 Do n't let Aniushka see it . ’
12 Do n't let Barney hear you say that , ’ Melissa murmured with a faint smile .
13 If you wan na play it , you play it , you know do n't let Matthew put you off .
14 Do n't let Ricky run away Jonathan .
15 Keep up the excellent work — but do n't let Flymo eat the money !
16 Do n't let Floy forget the chart of colours . ’
17 Do n't let Toby get too far and do n't let him run away to the moon again .
18 Do n't let Violette provoke you , ’ the Princesse laughed .
19 Work continues with NEC on the low-power VRX R4000 iteration , though SGI has n't decide whether it 'll productise the thing yet , it may prefer instead to let NEC bring portable technologies to market and OEM them .
20 Although old and ill by now , Edward was still determined not to let Scotland slip from his grasp .
21 Evelyn was finding it difficult to get used to going under the machines , but she was determined not to let Rose see how she felt .
22 He backed into his doorway , determined not to let Eleanor cross the threshold .
23 If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it .
24 But as the evening advanced , she wished she had n't let Greg guess that she was pleased at his attention .
25 Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year .
26 He had never let Anthony carry that much around .
27 But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’
28 Mercer stood aside to let Bambi lead the other two through the short noisy joining section , and then , before going himself , he looked back , saw me and beckoned .
29 He opened it and stood back to let Harry enter ‘ Head of Careers ’ is an absurd title , is n't it ? ’ he said .
30 ‘ Do come inside , ’ the girl said , and stood back to let Blanche go ahead of her .
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