Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 She lifted her hand to the board and let it drop .
2 Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks .
3 Alternatively when the display is switched off ( 2a ) the LC molecules are aligned with the light and let it pass .
4 Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets .
5 After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry .
6 It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly .
7 Do read the piece and let us know how you feel : if WOMAN can do something to help , I promise we shall .
8 Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back .
9 They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last .
10 So we dismantled the screen over the window and let them fly around the back of the barn .
11 He cut the engine and let it die down before speaking again .
12 Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side .
13 He parked two hundred yards from the precipice and let her walk the rest .
14 I find it impossible to comprehend the scale of this arena , and that afternoon provided a great opportunity to relax in the mountains and let them have their effect on us .
15 I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it .
16 It caught on the second try , and after a minute 's revving he switched off the ignition and let it die .
17 Ross unlocked the bar and let it swing down .
18 Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions .
19 There was n't too much to tell , and after Rutherford had finished he would leave the American in the room with the file and let him gut it for himself .
20 pull in the lay-by and let them go by that 's what they 're supposed to do
21 Shall I show you some of the pieces and let you try to guess the rules ?
22 Come over to the lamp and let me see . ’
23 Sara dropped her line into the water and let it unravel .
24 There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration .
25 Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away .
26 By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously .
27 It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones .
28 I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through .
29 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
30 Her sun was the biggest poacher — he was a devil : he 'd rob your house in the middle of the day and let you see him !
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