Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 2 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 3 | And every fourth Friday , or thereabouts , he still wrenched open his TLM , in case Sixsmith had run the screenplay without letting him know . |
| 4 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 5 | On September 1st , as soon as she was back in Florence , she had sent £12 , almost ten months ' wages to Ellen and had stressed the importance of letting her know such a large sum of money had arrived . |
| 6 | Place your left hand on his or her forehead or , if you prefer , support the head by letting it rest in your left hand . |
| 7 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 8 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 9 | Have I to hang all the garrison for letting you slip through ? ’ |
| 10 | And my predecessor — even the [ area supervisor ] — would n't come in the district without letting you know where he was going . |
| 11 | I had once made the mistake of letting him do this . |
| 12 | Mrs. Twitchett , who provided the refreshments must have been unhappy , for within one month the Club changed its policy of taking all the profit to letting her have it ‘ if any ’ and agreeing to supply her with additional help at weekends and other special occasions . |
| 13 | She already had grave doubts about the propriety of letting him buy her things , but accepted that it was part of the deal of being his supposed girlfriend . |
| 14 | Kathleen Lavender had a respect for death , for the propriety of letting it take its due , as and when it required . |
| 15 | They 'll provide accommodation and three meals a day , at only four times the cost of letting her do it herself . |
| 16 | The Bureau wants the freedom to listen to any phone call , even if it is encoded or encrypted ; not only this , it wants to make the telephone companies bear the cost of letting it do so . |
| 17 | It was important to position herself within easy reach of the doors before letting him see her , in case she had to bolt . |
| 18 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 19 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 20 | But I suppose the best way of answering that is to say that my own two sons aged 9 and 11 are playing rugby , love it , and I have no hesitation in letting them do so . |
| 21 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 22 | Where users only access one LIFESPAN Process , there is no harm in letting them have direct access to the command files in SYS$LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 25 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 26 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 27 | The red bitch 's jaws were clamped to his leg in an iron grip and she 'd no intention of letting him go . |
| 28 | ‘ We have no intention of letting him go and I would like him to stay on after his present contract expires . |
| 29 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 30 | So the Milettis had realized the threat to their schemes which the fake letter would pose and had no intention of letting them see it ! |