Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Edgar will blame me for letting her go to your house . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd sneer at you , him and his daughter , and at me for letting you go out so , and that I 'll not have ! |
| 3 | I only want you to know that I 'm very grateful to you for helping me become Joe 's apprentice . ’ |
| 4 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 5 | Thank you for making me look a fool ? |
| 6 | ABBERLEY : Promise me not to — I could kill you for making me ask you that . |
| 7 | Thank you for letting me know . ’ |
| 8 | Thank you for letting me know where you stand , ’ Lucenzo said quietly . |
| 9 | Thank you for letting me know . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you for letting me see such a beautiful face ! ’ he said . |
| 11 | Thank you for letting me share the celebrations . |
| 12 | thank you for letting me get that top though I do n't know |
| 13 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 14 | Thank you for your letter and thank you for letting us see your nine-volume Complete History of Wimbledon . |
| 15 | I ought never to have accused you of letting him die . |
| 16 | What are you like does it improve your hearing . |
| 17 | Now I can help you by letting you stay somewhere safe . ’ |
| 18 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 19 | Ironically , it is sometimes shortage of staff which prevents them from letting you go . |
| 20 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 21 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 22 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 23 | Would they of let you go if you 'd passed ? |
| 24 | He should never have let her talk him into letting her give hers first when they had been deciding how to handle this whole situation . |
| 25 | She wheedled him into letting her take the art class … for a consideration , of course . ’ |
| 26 | Then , when I was eleven , he had a friend who owned a music store and he talked him into letting me work Saturdays . |
| 27 | Gavin fished the spoon out , wiped it on his shirt , and gingerly offered it to his master , who gripped his wrist , jerked him forward and clattered his ears for him before letting him go . |
| 28 | A wave of hot colour swept over her as she wriggled to somehow attach the bedspread around her without letting it slip and giving this mocking character another full frontal . |
| 29 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |
| 30 | After a Goodwood win last May Brittain considered it worth letting him take his chance in the Budweiser Irish Derby in which he finished eighth to St Jovite and Dr Devious . |