Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 2 | They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’ |
| 3 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 4 | K : ‘ It is , because we do n't have room for a washing machine and they let us take the laundry to them . ’ |
| 5 | If you have a cat and you let it walk around the countryside rather than confine it in your house ; what is the consequence ? |
| 6 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 7 | I 'll give you two oranges if you let me take your photo . ’ |
| 8 | We 'll teach you in complete confidence' ) , the Jazz Society ( 'There will be a small written examination before we let you know if you can join' ) and the French Society ( 'Amusez-vous bien et attrapez cirrhose du foie avec la Frenchsoc ! ' ) . |
| 9 | Ca n't let this go on , they 'll be in trouble if they let it go on . |
| 10 | It 's important as a hostess that you conduct a thorough search of your guests ' cars for malt whisky , smoked salmon and interesting cheeses before you let them undo their seat-belts . |
| 11 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 12 | It will be more than my life 's worth if I let you get away again . ’ |
| 13 | Get a few ranters together and they give you broth if you let them save your soul . |
| 14 | Total costs will be in the region of £2,000 — I 'll get firm quotes when you let me know if these specs are OK |
| 15 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 16 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 17 | Erm , well we let them and again we brought out the demonstrator and we let them touch condoms erm do anything they wanted with them as long as we got them back . |
| 18 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 19 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 20 | Lots of chaps with pink coats will have nothing to do on winter mornings unless we let 'em come repossessin' with us . |
| 21 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 22 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 23 | Tracey said you just tell Carla and you let me hear anyone say anything . |
| 24 | We still have our two traditional enemies , but now a third looms an enemy in the Labour Party an enemy supporting the now ancient cry of the Tories and the Tory national press , for one man one vote replacing the vote in the trade unions a distancing of the Labour Party from the unions if we let them get away with this , it would mean none of the established political parties represent the interests of ordinary working people the people who I 've always represented , that 's what I think about , just them ! |