Example sentences of "[adj] let [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 She might secretly find this tall , elegant man extremely disturbing , but she was n't prepared to let him guess that fact .
2 Amanda rolled over taking most of the duvet with her ; it was easier to let her have more than her fair share .
3 This lets you hide any application , whether open or minimised — great if the boss is coming and you 've got a game of solitaire on the boil .
4 Today today we 're declaring an interim dividend of one point three three per share er compared with the same period this year er sorry let me start that again .
5 Let me take that let me take that
6 The quality of our clients perhaps could be improved , we do n't have very many large plc clients here in Manchester , the competition , er P W's and K P N G have a better or bigger let me say that , bigger er P L C client base than than we do .
7 That 's alright , if it 's fine let me do that .
8 ‘ I felt awful letting him walk all that way to the station last night . ’
9 Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue .
10 That lets them use such phrases as ‘ smart cookie ’ and ‘ that 's the way the cookie crumbles ’ — meaning the inevitability of some outcome .
11 As small headphones are dreadfully inefficient at the bottom end , there is a built-in bass boost which helps the guitar sound in this situation — switch eight lets you turn this off when not working with headphones .
12 First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive .
13 If the horse wo n't walk into the trailer , it 's best to let him eat some of his food standing on the ramp ( only of a two-horse trailer and obviously not that of a truck ) .
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