Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most grateful if you would telephone and speak to either Heidi or me to let me know if and when this would be convenient for you . |
| 2 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 3 | May I remind you that I let you go ? |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning that I let you kiss me once I realised that was your intention , because I too thought that it would serve a purpose and stop Terry Lewis making any more waves . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 6 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 7 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's begun to be difficult about going to bed , so I let her sleep there . ’ |
| 9 | Funny thing is the whole place seems to run better her way , so I let her get on with it . |
| 10 | But , because she knew nothing of the business , I insisted that she let me handle things . |
| 11 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 12 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 13 | If there is still no news in the morning , I recommend that you let me supply a professional bodyguard and review your personal security . ’ |
| 14 | And not the least wonderful thing is that you let me follow my star , and encourage me and help me ; so many women would n't . |
| 15 | In a way , she was greater than you let me know because she was approachable too . ’ |
| 16 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 17 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 18 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 19 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 20 | And if you do n't do that , once you let them go you 've had it , so it is very important . |
| 21 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 22 | The Alcometer reading was negligible , so we let him go with a warning . ’ |
| 23 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 24 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 25 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 27 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 28 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 29 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 30 | But though she knew she ought to deter that straying hand , struggle free of him , insist that he let her leave his bed , her own treacherous flesh kept her prisoner . |