Example sentences of "to let me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know something about you that you do not know yourself ’ He paused , again as if to let me prepare myself . |
| 2 | When I ask Rachel again to let me pay for somewhere decent she says , no , this place is recognized by the DHSS . |
| 3 | But what we 've done now they 've agreed to let me pay and I pay cost price for the drinks . |
| 4 | But you 'll have to let me give instructions to my men . ’ |
| 5 | But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing . |
| 6 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our situation is pressing and my father has therefore decided to let me go alone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was afraid to let me go free , because I have friends in England . |
| 15 | That he was going to let me go , even . |
| 16 | For a second there was that other side of him I sense , the violence , hatred , absolute determination not to let me go . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ When are you going to let me go , Miguel ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Look , Blanche , you 've got to let me go . |
| 21 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 26 | I would like you to let , I would like you to let me go down to the fair . |
| 27 | I ask the hon. Gentleman to let me continue at this stage . |
| 28 | It 's very kind of you , maltster , to let me bring them in here . ’ |
| 29 | And this is the second day you 've refused to let me bring my bedding up . |
| 30 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |