Example sentences of "back and let " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will not sit back and let others help themselves to our intellectual property , ’ Andy Grove , Intel 's combative chief executive , said . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 3 | I decided to lie back and let it happen , and put it down to ‘ supernature ’ ; I 've witnessed it before . |
| 4 | This is mind-boggling black-comic stuff , but Holland , perhaps overwhelmed by the weight of the Holocaust taking place just out of frame , seems to sit back and let it happen . |
| 5 | Kirov said nothing , content to sit back and let the full impact of his well-constructed lie sink in . |
| 6 | Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ? |
| 7 | ‘ I was the kind of person who would sit back and let my manager look after things , ’ he says , ‘ and that 's never a good idea . |
| 8 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 9 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 10 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 11 | He seemed quite content to sit back and let Stephen do the talking when Elvin Braithwaite , the island 's Immigration chief , knocked and entered . |
| 12 | There 's no way we 'll sit back and let him continue in this way . |
| 13 | So I was quite happy to sit back and let the other guests talk when they came on . |
| 14 | I ca n't sit back and let Liz get on with it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I like to sit back and let life drift around me . |
| 16 | And it would be shame to him to hold back and let a fighter like Douglas be shot to death from a distance , with never an enemy at hand to exchange blows with him . |
| 17 | Are we meant to hang back and let the opposition run at us ? |
| 18 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 19 | ‘ The appetite is certainly there and I 'm keen enough , but I do n't way to come back and let myself down . |
| 20 | ‘ You can not sit back and let it happen . |
| 21 | it 'll be nice when these are grown up and you can sit back and let them wait on you |