Example sentences of "let [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in November at the council he let see how much trust he was ever again likely to put in the little law-givers at Westminster . |
| 2 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 3 | When I was left at school I was savage at not being let go home ; and when I went home , my mother did nothing but find fault with my schoolboy manners . |
| 4 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 5 | At the Passover Eve meal the stories of the plagues are recited , and with each one a finger is dipped in a glass of wine and a drop of the wine let fall on to a plate . |
| 6 | The grain was too complex and cross for him , the blade stuck , and in the same instant Isambard stretched both arms over the boy 's shoulders and seized his hands , forcing them apart and wringing them until he twisted with pain and let go both the knife and the wood . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're in the top 10 and let go even for an instant then you might as well be 200 , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Let go aft ! ’ |
| 9 | let Robert sing it , let go on , sing it Grace . |
| 10 | Well let go then ! |
| 11 | let go then , let go |
| 12 | which balloon has the mouse let go off and you have to follow them . |
| 13 | So you let go gently then you do the same on the other side , and then of course you 've got this piece free . |
| 14 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 15 | Finally Travis let himelf down by his arms and dropped to the ground . |
| 16 | No I mean , I think you just leave it there and let come around again . |
| 17 | Anyway , she had a four-year-old boy called Keith , who she never let play outside unless she was watching , because there was no defensible space . |
| 18 | No get , let start off yep on erm show you |
| 19 | There is a name to conjure with and let slip easily of the tongue . |
| 20 | HOWARD KENDALL last night hailed Peter Beardsley as the near-priceless asset that Liverpool let slip away . |
| 21 | It was a phrase that Baden-Powell let slip more than once in his speeches and writings in the thickening twilight before war . |
| 22 | Once it has found a nipple , the tip swells in its mouth so that the young is not able to let go even if it wanted to . |
| 23 | ‘ Other than dying , nothing more terrible than one of your kind getting her claws into him and then refusing to let go over all the years he spent struggling to free himself . ’ |
| 24 | Escoffier was not the man to let go easily . |
| 25 | ‘ He was n't going to let go easily . |
| 26 | An American handbook called Divorce — how and when to let go confidently affirms the easy destructibility of the marriage bond . |
| 27 | Kirov was not going to let go now . |
| 28 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 29 | I 've just got to learn to let go now . |
| 30 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |