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 . |