Example sentences of "to let [pers pn] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
| 2 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 3 | Once you have experienced the full range of emotions , however , you need to be able to let them go — both for your own sake and that of the one who has died who must be allowed to continue on his ( or her ) own spiritual journey , wherever that may take him . |
| 4 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 5 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
| 6 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 7 | One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with . |
| 8 | Worst of all were the arbitrarily imposed ‘ delivery ’ or discharge fees which often meant innocent people spending substantial periods in prison ( having been found not guilty ) until hard-pressed relatives raised the necessary cash for release and the gaoler was prepared to let them go . |
| 9 | The Immigration man was loath to let them go , but the instructions on the register were clear . |
| 10 | When they nagged her to let them go , she conveyed to Kit he should allow it . |
| 11 | I did n't say his manipulation of the accounts were n't serious — they are — but I 'm prepared to let them go if Garry toes the line . ’ |
| 12 | We had to let them go . ’ |
| 13 | I think the important thing is not to let them go away thinking , you know , oh , why did I bother , there 's obviously no point in carrying on with it . |
| 14 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 15 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 16 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 17 | Our situation is pressing and my father has therefore decided to let me go alone . |
| 18 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 19 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 20 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 21 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 22 | She was afraid to let me go free , because I have friends in England . |
| 23 | That he was going to let me go , even . |
| 24 | For a second there was that other side of him I sense , the violence , hatred , absolute determination not to let me go . |
| 25 | I 've asked him to let me go straight out and breathe the cellar air , but he always makes me wait till I 've had breakfast . |
| 26 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 27 | ‘ When are you going to let me go , Miguel ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Look , Blanche , you 've got to let me go . |
| 29 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 30 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |