Example sentences of "have let [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 3 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 5 | If I had n't heard that whisper , I 'd have let him do what he wanted — anything he wanted — right here and now . |
| 6 | How could she have let him do that ? |
| 7 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 8 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 9 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’ |
| 11 | But I should n't have let you do that . ’ |
| 12 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 13 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 14 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |