Example sentences of "let [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge . |
| 2 | It says right here , ACT-UP did their fucking nuts , quite right too , held a demonstration outside the Chicago gaol and everything , but they still deported him , and now THT and BP and everybody are saying that they wo n't go to the San Francisco conference unless they let PWAs in . ’ |
| 3 | Let stand about 18 minutes , until the breasts are cooked through . |
| 4 | Then her daughter ran quickly and let Vasilissa out of the birch-broom , and , as before , the two girls sewed , talked , laughed , and combed their hair . |
| 5 | Then her daughter made haste and let Vasilissa out of the broom . |
| 6 | Ronan Rafferty : " I let Christy down on the greens . |
| 7 | ‘ You look tired , dear , ’ said Doris Smythe when she had hobbled up to her door and let Linda in before carefully locking it again once Linda was standing in her dark hallway . |
| 8 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 9 | first they let journalists in , then literary agents ; it would be women members next . |
| 10 | I can hear a chuckle in some quarters but I feel he never let England down . |
| 11 | Wright , who knows better than many what it is like to feel persecuted , watched the 6–0 win on television after his groin injury ruled him out and let Barnes back after 10 months ' absence . |
| 12 | I let Satan out and chuck the paper in a drawer . |
| 13 | The scoreline was unkind to Leeds , who should have been one up through Rod Wallace but were one down when poor defending let Sheron in . |
| 14 | Sir Henry had trouble with the links greens of St Georges , and let Ernest virtually take over . |
| 15 | It was occasional raggedness in technique that let Cambridge down . |
| 16 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 17 | But let s just see what your streetwise , closing-time training can do . ’ |
| 18 | Please make sure that everyone coming has adequate directions and transport arranged and let Rita Quick know as soon as possible , how many you have been able to muster ( Please remind them to bring packed lunch ) . |
| 19 | Please let Rita Quick know as soon as you can if you would like to come — we can take up to ten . |
| 20 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 21 | I 've never been in jail and I never wan na find out what it 's like in jail but if you actually ever go to the police station , Harlow police station , they sometimes let people up there and do tours , no one likes being left in the cell cos when the door closes it 's very very small and it 's very claustrophobic , and it 's not very nice . |
| 22 | He wanted to have an intercom by the front door and only let people in by appointment . |
| 23 | She thinks I let Norman down somehow by marrying a plumber — not that she has any job at all ! |
| 24 | Let Christ really be Lord of all your life and not just some of it . |
| 25 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 26 | Knowing what they shared was enough for now , and she was content for him to pick his moment , take his time and let Celeste down gently . |
| 27 | Let Cleveland then beware of a clap . ' |
| 28 | Much of the opposition to the ERA came from adherents to fundamentalist religious movements which take literally Biblical statements such as St Paul 's to the Ephesians — ‘ Wives , be subject to your husband as to the Lord ’ and ‘ As the church is subject to Christ , so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands ’ . |
| 29 | So if we let V not U Right , we let U be that , |
| 30 | Therefore what God has joined together , let man not separate' ( Matt. 19:4–6 ) . |