Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] let [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not stop them , so I rather let them get on with it … |
| 2 | And I was n't a sheeplike person you see , I did n't follow him I just let him go . |
| 3 | ‘ I read that Malcolm had a plan , so I just let him get on with it . |
| 4 | Oh it was funny with Alison when I first saw her on when she was still a terrible state she let it all out in a great scream and I just let her talk and talk and talk |
| 5 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 6 | I mean Aunty Mary , well I do n't given up talking to her she 'd she says bus and I just let it go . |
| 7 | ‘ The greens have dared to move much nearer to blue than I ever let her go , I put my signature through that blue patch to diminish the effect . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have me pride , James Halden , and I 'm ashamed I ever let you come near me . ’ |
| 9 | I hope you feel that I always let you follow yours , because , darling , your opinion on things affecting you and me , or either of us , I think important above all … you 're a bright star to march upon , and I 'm setting a steady pace . |
| 10 | In the end , I simply let them go on thinking what they wanted to think . ’ |
| 11 | I never let him know which farm was Auntie Muriel 's , though Auntie Muriel knew all about him . |
| 12 | I said a bit , and I never let him know , I thought I 'll wait a little bit until he go so he says to me , he says I bet you do n't know why they put the damper in just before they 'd put the , bring the ball out do you ? |
| 13 | There were moments when I did get upset by it , but I never let her see it . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 15 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 16 | ‘ You just let me go . |
| 17 | You just let me try it out . |
| 18 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 19 | ‘ Fifty quid if you just let him go ! ’ |
| 20 | But there again you you just let it go in one ear and out the other ear . |
| 21 | Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep . |
| 22 | the total is different opposite on the scale , instead of all this stuff inside of you , you just let it build up and you let it build up until whoosh and you throw it outside at other people , and that itself that that as well causes physical problems . |
| 23 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |
| 24 | She just let it lapse . |
| 25 | She always let them know where she could be reached in an emergency . |
| 26 | You always let him get away things ! |
| 27 | ‘ All I ask of you is that you please let me go . ’ |
| 28 | Then a negotiation could be conducted along the lines ‘ You take my opium — I take your Islands in return — we are therefore Quits , — & thenceforth if you please let us live in friendly Communion and good fellowship ’ ( Jardine to Palmerston , 5 December 1839 ) . |
| 29 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 30 | She never let me change . |