Example sentences of "to let he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather bemused , Folly stood back to let him past . |
| 2 | But in 1968 he somehow persuaded Columbia to let him direct Easy Rider . |
| 3 | The gatekeeper opened half the gate to let him through . |
| 4 | He drove the plane back into the circuit and again forced them to let him through . |
| 5 | The door which had opened hastily to let him through was just swinging heavily to when Harry roused himself out of his daze of doubt and consternation , and flung himself after in a burst of despairing rage . |
| 6 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 7 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 8 | Jamie began to let him out daily , down three flights of stairs to a yard where buckets of water stood beside a drain . |
| 9 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 10 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
| 11 | Say me a word , one enlightening word , to let him out of this cage . |
| 12 | And how to let him out — the child inside |
| 13 | I 'm terrified to let him out , but I ca n't keep him in for ever . |
| 14 | He had to rely on a passer-by to let him out . |
| 15 | A 20-year-old friend , Sheena Heffing , had put her son in the seat of a shopping trolley and refused to let him out no matter how much he squirmed . |
| 16 | Or he , he goes and opens the door to let him out . |
| 17 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 18 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't want to let him in , ’ says a lofty academic . ’ |
| 20 | At one point she told Nick that if Hayling — whom she referred to as ‘ that nice-looking young man with the curly hair ’ — came round again she would refuse to let him in . |
| 21 | ‘ So he 's not likely to have knocked on the door yesterday evening and asked Sir Paul to let him in . ’ |
| 22 | He had no key to the house ; he had asked his mother for one , but she had said it was n't necessary — there would always be someone there to let him in . |
| 23 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 24 | She stood back to let him in . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got to let him in ! ’ |
| 27 | And complained that she had refused to let him in when he had returned from the wine bar having forgotten his key . |
| 28 | To let him in to his mother for a suck , |
| 29 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 30 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |