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Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’
2	But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course .
3	There is a hand-out on professional telephone behaviour , a hand-out on the pleas from the switchboard supervisor , and also a form , a course form , if you could take that with you fill it in and let me have it back sometime .
4	While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch .
5	But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time .
6	And just dip it in and let her suck it .
7	so I give in and let her come .
8	And if you 've got a pad of them or or , or some by you you can just fill it in and let it go through .
9	Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue .
10	Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that .
11	But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties .
12	The Audi was only yards from her now and Donna decided to pull in and let it pass .
13	Now put her down and let her run about .
14	Sometimes I lay down and let them dance on my hand , and from time to time children came to play games in my hair .
15	You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long .
16	They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them .
17	In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he .
18	‘ Now come , Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ sit down and let us talk about this sensibly . ’
19	get off the wave either by sailing down ahead of it or by slowing down and letting it pass under you .
20	‘ Please , ’ she asked , genuinely fearful now , it seemed to Hope , who relished the fact , ‘ will you sit down and let me talk to you ? ’
21	She 'll lie down and let him walk over her till the end of her days .
22	To ‘ catch ’ it you might have to slow down and let it come towards you .
23	‘ Here — you run along and let me get on with it . ’
24	As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop .
25	Basically , it provided that they would be investing in her rather than letting her buy this or that security for them .
26	rather than letting it get dried out and cracked .
27	They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me .
28	Rather than let me do it . ’
29	And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away .
30	And also why you 've got to talk to people , you know get your problems out in the open rather than let them build up and all of a sudden just say right , that 's it , out the gates , or down tools .