Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to let i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 've managed to persuade the CO to let me chuck Assistant Adjutant .
2 I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains .
3 Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast .
4 In this case there is only one honest situation — to ask the President to let me resign . ’
5 ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised .
6 But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .
7 However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in .
8 A large black Cadillac stops in the road to let me cross before pulling in .
9 And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) .
10 I only became aware of the truth when in July Grace wrote from the front to let me know that Charlie was being sent home following the second battle of the Marne .
11 Suddenly he noticed how pale I was , and stopped for a moment to let me get my breath back .
12 Service plans come with relevant committees , being this one in this case but structures and structures strictly speaking , are still the remit of P and Q , so I think it might be a courtesy to let me have a look at the structure because they are simply right , guardians of the organisation P and Q
13 Or did he just leave a message to let me know he 'd called ? ’
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