Example sentences of "let [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory . |
| 2 | ‘ What the film wants to do is let everyone feel secure about life , about their own position in life , to feel that they can achieve the things they want . |
| 3 | First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings . |
| 4 | But he let nothing get in the way of his chief purpose . |
| 5 | I do n't deny I hoped it was Dysart she was planning to ruin — I wondered if there 'd been a lovers ’ tiff — but she let nothing slip . |
| 6 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps I should have let them go . |
| 8 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 9 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 10 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 11 | Eventually Phil 's dad had let them borrow his garage . |
| 12 | the festivals car park , you know the whole thing and I mean then he kicked them off did n't he , so they moved up to Cross Street so in a way it 's their own fault , they could of let them stay there , I mean every body wants to be settled somewhere like |
| 13 | The motion said it believed ‘ Downing Street 's message to the Scots can best be summarised as ‘ Let them drink whisky ’ ' . |
| 14 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 15 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 16 | Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life . |
| 17 | Then I 'll call a district meeting where I 'll get other branches together erm shop stewards and that , and I 'll pass this information , I 've let them know there 's such a thing as . |
| 18 | I 've let them know it 's , it 's going ahead erm and that the vote is coming off . |
| 19 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 20 | The seriousness of the revolt was evidenced by the fact that Soapy Simon , an arch-appeaser who wanted above everything to be liked , had become their spokesman and had let them cram into his room and sit it out ( with a break for dinner at the Savoy , of course ) until the PM gave his answer . |
| 21 | For many are accompanied by mothers who 've let them take the day off . |
| 22 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 23 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 24 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 25 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 26 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 27 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 28 | Was that why Benjamin had let me go ? |
| 29 | You should have let me go . ’ |
| 30 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |