Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should just let them get on with it , ’ said Ellen lightly , ‘ so long as they do n't start sacrificing goats . |
| 2 | You must also let them know when the work is complete . |
| 3 | And if you ask , they must also let you know where they got your name . |
| 4 | The PRO should then let everyone get on with their jobs . |
| 5 | You should never let it flower at all . ’ |
| 6 | It was getting harder every minute she spent with him to pretend an indifference she did n't feel , but she must never let him know how much she loved him . |
| 7 | Whatever happened , she must never let him find out just how close to running she had really been . |
| 8 | Oh ! to think that he should actually let her come as near to him as that ! ( h.2 ) |
| 9 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 10 | The young man faltered , but managed , ‘ If you 'll only let me show you — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll ring Mr Pritchard to fetch me in the morning if you 'll just let me stay the night . ’ |
| 12 | And if you 'll just let me handle it , I also know exactly how you can get everything you want . |
| 13 | ‘ If yer 'll just let me play a tune I 'll give yer me penny . ’ |
| 14 | If he wants more he 'll soon let you know . ’ |
| 15 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 16 | ‘ We might just let you win it , too , ’ joked Best , the memory of what Wales did to his team still fresh on his mind . |
| 17 | Okay erm I 've got , I just thought I 'd , might just let you know that the , the end result figure that , that , on the recruitment front , they reckon they 'll be at twenty three hundred by the end of the year . |
| 18 | I do n't know how I 'll ever let her go to school . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to ask you if you 'll kindly let me borrow that . ’ |
| 20 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 21 | And now they 'll never let me go . |
| 22 | But they 'll never let me leave . |
| 23 | You 'll never let me have a pet will you ? |
| 24 | They 'll never let me join their gang now . ’ |
| 25 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 26 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 27 | If he 's in police custody as he may well be by now they 'll never let her see him , ’ Hugo said . |
| 28 | ‘ If they come visitin' — CO , Adjutant , QM , like — they 'll never let you get away with it . |
| 29 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 30 | She had intended to say , ‘ Because I went through a promiscuous period after I left Sam , and it was a hateful , shameful , humiliating time , and I 'll never let it happen again . ’ |