Example sentences of "[coord] let him [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 4 | They simply opened the prison gates and let him walk out . |
| 5 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 6 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 9 | Best to ignore him and let him come around in his own time . |
| 10 | And let him find out three by four same as four by three . |
| 11 | and let him balance there , without moving forward . |
| 12 | Sometimes he had to admit , he wished they would just leave him alone and let him live out this petty , pointless . |
| 13 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |