Example sentences of "stand [adv] and let " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes one wonder how much longer its OEM customer , technology partner and minority shareholder Hewlett-Packard Co is going to wait before buying the company and putting it out of its misery — or is it going to stand aside and let Sequoia 's other major partner , Samsung Electronics Co , Seoul , South Korea nip in and snap it up under its nose ? |
| 2 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 3 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 4 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 5 | ‘ So I 'm not going to stand by and let you use me and destroy me as you did my brother ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then stand aside and let me in . ’ |
| 7 | Stand , stand up and lets see . |
| 8 | As Richards ( 1987 , p. 29 ) observes , such central divisions ‘ must be willing to … stand back and let the … [ cost centre ] manager succeed or fail , according to his or her own lights ’ . |
| 9 | I stand back and let them in . |
| 10 | Alternatively , I could find Scamp myself , then stand back and let the cavalry come . |
| 11 | And you stand by and let him do it … |
| 12 | Do you think I would stand aside and let you suffer , as my mother did ? |
| 13 | Any county council that can not find elbow room within a £600 million-plus budget to look after its old people 's homes should stand aside and let some of my colleagues take over . |
| 14 | It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this . |
| 15 | Surely somebody would stand up and let her sit down ? |
| 16 | The Americans felt they could not stand by and let Europe fall into economic chaos ; their own economy would also suffer . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't stop such outrages but I ca n't just stand by and let them continue . |
| 18 | It was unbelievable — not only that he had done it but that she had stood there and let him . |
| 19 | He simply stood aside and let her enter . |
| 20 | They stood aside and let us pass , though we heard the sniggers and laughter caused by their little jokes . |
| 21 | She stood up and let it unroll before her to shout its hideous message for itself . |
| 22 | He stood up and let his rifle butt slip to the ground . |
| 23 | I stood back and let them pass — |
| 24 | Sixty years ago when the Nazis began their attacks on Jews and foreigners , ordinary citizens stood back and let it happen . |
| 25 | He stood back and let me turn . |
| 26 | make sure I see her this week , so she said oh she said Penny is a good girl she said er there was Penny and Margaret working at G P P and she said they were both doing test but she said come the end of day they only wanted one she said and for that , so she said Penny stood back and let Margaret stay to keep her job |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't believe I actually stood here and let you — maul me . ’ |
| 28 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |