Example sentences of "had let [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an unguarded moment , Iris had let drop that , while Bonard was paying her expenses , she was receiving no fee to run the course . |
| 2 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 4 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 5 | Midnight had let go . |
| 6 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 7 | as if he had let go of oars and rudder and now drifted on the dark current of events . |
| 8 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 9 | His expression lightening a little once he had let go of her , he pulled a penny from his pocket , and said cheerfully , ‘ We 'll toss for white . |
| 10 | On the screen they had let go of the puerto Rican mass murderer 's trousers and he was on his way to the sidewalk , head first , at about seventy miles an hour . |
| 11 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 12 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 13 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 14 | He turned towards the stove so that she should n't see the flush of shame and dismay that he had let slip Berowne 's name . |
| 15 | He had let slip he was married . |
| 16 | He was angry with himself for what he had let slip . |
| 17 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |
| 18 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 19 | Twenty-two years old , she had already lost count and lost interest in the number of men she had let penetrate her slender frame . |
| 20 | This view of him had been built up gradually , partly as a result of that interview with Rodriguez back in Mexico City , and partly from the bits and pieces of information Ward had let fall . |
| 21 | She roamed back thoughtfully into childhood memories , hunting for the little clues her mother and grandmother had let fall about him , and the sum of them all was remarkably meagre . |
| 22 | I had to let go of her , I had to . |
| 23 | I had to let go of separatism . |
| 24 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 25 | Erm we have we had in in this particular set of accounts thirty five pounds on two occasions for rooms er which we had to let go and computer data er which is still being processed I understand at a cost of forty pounds . |
| 26 | At one stage Mr Howes said he had hold of Alan 's arm … but his colleague was a dead weight , and he had to let go . |