Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I let it be known that I was n't dead ; that I was safe . ’ |
| 2 | I let it be known I was n't really interested in going out again , and hoped they 'd get the message — that I was finished with it . ’ |
| 3 | So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear . |
| 4 | She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name . |
| 5 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 6 | It wo n't be difficult then for me to let it be known that I do n't want you working here . ’ |
| 7 | They let it be known around school that they were collecting waste paper and asked the others to do the same so they could weigh it all in . |
| 8 | How could he let it be known to all and sundry that they were ‘ engaged ’ — how could he ? |