Example sentences of "let him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 2 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 3 | This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty . |
| 4 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 5 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 6 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 7 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 8 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 9 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 10 | See the e the headmaster 's wife see another fella to early retirement last year and they 've let him go back on supply . |
| 11 | I gave him a fair price for it , and I have let him carry on trading in smack . ’ |
| 12 | You 've let him court you , after all . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Forget it — I 'm not talking to you in your suite ! ’ she snapped , chagrined by the way she had let him lead her . |
| 14 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 15 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 16 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 17 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 18 | The house sighed , wishing it had not let him start . |
| 19 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 20 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 21 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 22 | If I had n't heard that whisper , I 'd have let him do what he wanted — anything he wanted — right here and now . |
| 23 | How could she have let him do that ? |
| 24 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 25 | You should never have let him leave . ’ |
| 26 | Why not let him think he 'd won the argument ? |
| 27 | ‘ You 've let him think it , ’ Mrs Alderley said repressively . |
| 28 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 29 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 30 | ‘ I should have let him hit you properly ! ’ she snapped . |