Example sentences of "[coord] let [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 2 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 3 | Best to ignore him and let him come around in his own time . |
| 4 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 5 | It was not until a long time afterwards that Catriona thought she understood the reason Sarah seemed young , which was simple : she looked directly at everyone and let them look back at her . |
| 6 | He flinched as Sweetheart lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back into her lap with a sigh of exasperation . |
| 7 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 8 | Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 10 | His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ . |
| 11 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 12 | Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ? |
| 13 | The guitar had no place here and the guitarist sat back with a grin , his back to the open case , and let them get on with it . |
| 14 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 15 | Luckily , you can now plonk your curious infants in front of Knowledge Adventure and let them find out for themselves . |
| 16 | Or if she had come to his place and told Gina to bugger off , obeying his instructions , he might have rewarded her and let her move in with him permanently . |
| 17 | When she 's ready , place her a little way up the slide and let her move down with your standing by the slide for reassurance . |
| 18 | ‘ Give her the päté anyway and let her get on with it . |
| 19 | Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it . |
| 20 | Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it . |
| 21 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
| 22 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 23 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 24 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 25 | Stop jawing and let me get on with it . |
| 26 | ‘ Here — you run along and let me get on with it . ’ |
| 27 | Self-satisfaction had given way to an impatience that said , as clearly as the words , ‘ If that 's the best you can do , stop wasting my time and let me get on with my work . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Come on , Terry , just mend it and let me get out of here . ’ |
| 29 | Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ? |
| 30 | The single market needs the Social Charter , the Labour Group backs the Social p Charter , the Labour Group is ready for 1993 and the sooner you lot get out of the way and let us get on with it , the better . |