Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] let [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She 's begun to be difficult about going to bed , so I let her sleep there . ’ |
| 3 | This he had turned into what looked like a camera shop and I let him get well ahead before starting my take-off . |
| 4 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
| 5 | It will be more than my life 's worth if I let you get away again . ’ |
| 6 | If I let it run away with me , it might , you know |
| 7 | ‘ If ye let me go now , ’ Anton said , ‘ I wo n't tell anybody . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She calmed him down and said : ‘ If you let me go outside I 'll get the keys ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ OK , sir , ’ replied the boy , ‘ if you let me telephone home my mother will fax it to you . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Well we thought about one but it but we let it grow again because we just had n't the time . |
| 12 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 13 | But there was never anyone else there when they let her go that far . |