Example sentences of "to let [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he forgot to let on that it was still being built — and did n't have any beer . |
| 2 | You feel there 's always more going on underneath the surface than he 's prepared to let on . |
| 3 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 4 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 5 | Lizzy had made Kate promise not to let on she was a policewoman . |
| 6 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |
| 7 | ‘ Should she get her ears tested ? ’ he is asking himself , perhaps more anxiously than he really cares to let on . |
| 8 | You 're more involved with her than you want to let on , are n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , as a very temporary measure , wartime rent restriction was retained and , equally as a very temporary measure , since new houses would not be built to let commercially in these circumstances , a subsidy was introduced to bridge the gap — between pre-war and post-war rents . |
| 10 | Commented Aileen Collins retrospectively , ‘ … our study of literature in no way reflected what we knew was happening in the world … ( we aspired ) to let in new voices , and essentially to jolt Canadians from their lethargy and narrow-mindedness . |
| 11 | The Brecons have a one-piece upper and therefore fewer seams to let in water . |
| 12 | Sometimes the shutters of my room , raised slightly to let in streaks of sunlight between their horizontal slats , made our winter room seem tropical . |
| 13 | So when her doorbell rang , she went thankfully to the door to let in her expected visitor . |
| 14 | Hesitantly , she pushed open the door , which stood ajar to let in what air there was , and entered the hall . |
| 15 | She had put the mug by his bed and gone to the window to let in the light . |
| 16 | Timber-frame construction is , however , naturally energy-saving , and the Thamesmead houses have been designed to maximise the heat available by pitching as many roofs as possible to the south , and placing rooflights strategically to let in the heat of the sun , according to Geoffrey Wigfall of Wigfall Group Practice . |
| 17 | However , the game became a dreary affair until a minute before the interval when Atherton misjudged a bounce to let in Wilson , who shot over the bar . |
| 18 | He had a blackboard on each wall with only tiny windows in between to let in the light . |
| 19 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 20 | The lean and agile don , in his open-necked shirt , stood on the window-sill and tugged at the casement to let in fresh air , cold Cambridge light . |
| 21 | Mr Melvin , Bookseller , Union St , had 2 public and 4 bedrooms to let in Academy St for Northern Meeting Week . |
| 22 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 23 | Ranulf , outside , peered through the small window , its shabby wooden shutters flung wide to let in the air and light . |
| 24 | A survey of 175 centersshowed that one fifth take age into account when deciding who to let in . |
| 25 | The ‘ Dublin ’ trolley masts which did not have caps over the swivelling tops , were found to let in water and the top parts were soon fitted with waterproof canvas socks . |
| 26 | NOW you can see the fearsome fighters of the WWF in your own home — if you 're brave enough to let in a muscular gang of mighty strong men . |
| 27 | BRITAIN slammed the door yesterday on calls to let in many more Yugoslav civil war refugees . |
| 28 | Although we need earholes to let in air-borne sounds , water-borne vibrations pass easily through the tissues of these sea mammals ' heads to reach their ears . |
| 29 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
| 30 | There was a knock on the door , and Miranda jumped to let in Xanthe , carrying a crinkly air-mail-paper version of The Times , and a copy of Paris-Match with a photograph of Bardot , which she held up for Miranda to see . |