Example sentences of "[pron] have let [pron] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
| 2 | When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’ |
| 3 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 4 | I 've let them know it 's , it 's going ahead erm and that the vote is coming off . |
| 5 | Then I 'll call a district meeting where I 'll get other branches together erm shop stewards and that , and I 'll pass this information , I 've let them know there 's such a thing as . |
| 6 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 7 | ‘ But I have to let it bother me . |
| 8 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 9 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 10 | You 've let him court you , after all . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've let him think it , ’ Mrs Alderley said repressively . |
| 12 | ‘ Forget it — I 'm not talking to you in your suite ! ’ she snapped , chagrined by the way she had let him lead her . |
| 13 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 14 | She had let him have it to comfort him because he minded leaving home and their mother more than she did . |
| 15 | The bloke was a fucking nutter and she had let him tie her up ! |
| 16 | But instead , she had let him drive her back to the flat ; had stood by in mute acquiescence while he 'd ransacked her drawers and cupboards and packed her a bag . |
| 17 | He began handing cards to some of the people who had let him take their picture . |
| 18 | ‘ You see , Inspector , you have to die because — ’ ‘ Elinor , ’ he could see her white anxious face now , ‘ you have to let me strangle you . |
| 19 | Sir , you have to let me have it . " |
| 20 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 21 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 22 | ‘ If we have to let her go it will be terrible . |
| 23 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 24 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 25 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |