Example sentences of "[conj] they let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable . |
| 7 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 8 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 9 | The next morning someone from the production office turned up and said , ‘ Please can we have our actor back , ’ and they let me go . |
| 10 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 11 | ‘ I said I was unfairly handicapped , and they let me do extra Latin instead , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I did , and they let me run . |
| 13 | I could feel it , and they let me join in . |
| 14 | I liked working with Ted and Eva , and they let me come and go more or less as I wished . |
| 15 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 16 | There was a pond by us , belonging to the people that we were with , and they let us bring some , and we popped them in , and erm on the far bank of the pond there are always lovely dragonflies , and on the other side there 's some marsh orchids which , I did n't let the excavator erm scoop away that bank and each year there are marsh orchids . |
| 17 | K : ‘ It is , because we do n't have room for a washing machine and they let us take the laundry to them . ’ |
| 18 | if anybody can sort of if you write in English , maybe could send it to you , could get it translated at the Stortford , oh that might be very useful , erm , I mean , I 'll certainly do some letters and if anybody else wants to , if they let me know I 'll let them have the addresses for them , erm , there are fax as well and that suppose to be a quicker way than writing a letter actually than send through a fax , right , erm , if anybody can then we could send them to you and , and ask you to send it on , and we would sort of postage , would be covered would it Margaret ? |
| 19 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 20 | Ca n't let this go on , they 'll be in trouble if they let it go on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But they let you walk in and take his place before they even knew that you never laugh at anything , even if it 's funny . ’ |
| 24 | Because they let him pick them up . |
| 25 | And where have they headed , since they let you make for here alone ? ’ |
| 26 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 27 | But there was never anyone else there when they let her go that far . |
| 28 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 29 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |