Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Aline , be a dear sweet girl and go away and let me die in peace . |
| 4 | In those moments , those final moments as he took her and reached ecstasy , she had been able to believe he loved her , felt something for her ; and , though she knew he did not , she was moved , wanted to retain those precious moments which he had just given her when he had finally stripped the mask away and let her see how human he was as he merged with her and lost himself inside her . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ he kissed her goodbye , ‘ I will take my beautiful legs and my useless member away and let you sleep . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Give her the päté anyway and let her get on with it . |
| 7 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 8 | Their progress was fast , the ground had hardened after the rains while Sir James had unfurled the royal standard of Scotland to make it obvious to any others using the road to stand aside quickly and let them pass . |
| 9 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the hymns that are the great stumbling block , ’ Everard went on , ‘ but really the only thing is to abandon oneself to the words uncritically and let them flow over one . ’ |
| 11 | He simply stood aside and let her enter . |
| 12 | They stood aside and let us pass , though we heard the sniggers and laughter caused by their little jokes . |
| 13 | If you got home and let them go , slosh water into them , you 'd soon have some dead 'uns . ’ |
| 14 | You would come darkly near and let me feed on your open mouth , while with a generosity that was ready to offer you everything , my heart , my throat , my entrails , I gave you to hold in your awkward fist the sceptre of my passion . ’ |
| 15 | I 'll have to study you more extensively and let you know . ’ |
| 16 | Look at them , acknowledge them and then tell yourself you will deal with them later and let them go . |
| 17 | There are those who skulk behind and let us run hither and thither while they watch what we find out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dennis , lovie , can you type this out now and let me have a copy ? |
| 20 | I will fetch both versions now and let you read the translation . |
| 21 | I know and I 'm trying to pile them up now and let you see the patterns so these |
| 22 | ‘ Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . ’ |
| 23 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
| 24 | Senses ( b ) and ( c ) however can both be treated in terms of the notion of " passively experiencing " some event , with ( b ) implying on top of that a refusal to stand by passively and let someone do something without intervening . |
| 25 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 26 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 27 | Lean over here and let me whisper . ’ |
| 28 | Come here and let me take off the spell . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What I require , Rasputin , is that you let me out of here and let me see Elaine . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees . |