Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] let it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
2 | I knew that if I let it go it would collapse on to a teapot and mugs still waiting to be cleared from the sideboard , which would confuse the situation still further . |
3 | If I let it run away with me , it might , you know |
4 | the total is different opposite on the scale , instead of all this stuff inside of you , you just let it build up and you let it build up until whoosh and you throw it outside at other people , and that itself that that as well causes physical problems . |
5 | If you have a cat and you let it walk around the countryside rather than confine it in your house ; what is the consequence ? |
6 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
7 | If you let it last , if you let sleeping together become regular — the way you live , instead of unexpected and just for sex — sometime you will end up having one of these four-in-the-morning , lay yourself bare , skin-peeling torture sessions . |
8 | But if you let it stall on you |
9 | But if you let it lie it manures it you see . |
10 | It 's only if you let it take over your life that it 's wrong . ’ |
11 | and we let it happen . |
12 | Ca n't let this go on , they 'll be in trouble if they let it go on . |
13 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
14 | Not a very lady-like expression if you ask me , but I let it pass . |
15 | I suspect Bunny probably meant that he once knew a Swedish waitress , but I let it pass . |
16 | Not only that , but we let it choose which letters to show us ! |
17 | ‘ The decision worried us , of course , but we let it go . |
18 | Well we thought about one but it but we let it grow again because we just had n't the time . |
19 | but we let it run over and the sugar the hob and it , there 's , there 's a chunk out of it |
20 | While you 're waiting for the kettle to boil erm , get a cup from the cupboard and a tea bag from the tea jar , put tea bag in the the cup and then wait for the kettle to boil and o , once the kettle has boiled you put your hot water into the cup and le , and let the tea brew for a little while And then , after you let it brew you can either add milk to it or , do not add milk to it . |
21 | Mm , mm , I think I 'd better check it before we let it go on . |
22 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |