Example sentences of "he let [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carelessly he let a page of newspaper fall on the cement beside the table and spilled his beads from the small purse into his palm . |
| 2 | He let a dignified minute pass before going out himself , collecting Catherine , and dispatching Bruce to supervise the house-to-house interviews in Malplaquet Terrace , to see if anyone could be found who had seen the blue BMW arrive or caught sight of its driver . |
| 3 | He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face . |
| 4 | He let a silence fall . |
| 5 | Tug opened his mouth automatically , but for the first time since he had been there , he let the words go unsaid . |
| 6 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 7 | Sliding deeper , he let the warm water lap around him . |
| 8 | He let the jib sheet loose and heaved in on the main . |
| 9 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 10 | And this time he let the contempt enter his voice . |
| 11 | And if he played a bad shot , he let the spectators know about it . |
| 12 | But he let the Masters slip out of his hand right at the finish and the doubts must have crept in . |
| 13 | He let the torch travel down over her back , to take her all in , and was surprised to something peculiar under her tail . |
| 14 | He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last . |
| 15 | He let the car forwards , down the hill , and on to the white road that led across the lake bed . |
| 16 | He let the question hang delicately in the air . |
| 17 | As he let the warm soothing potion trickle down his throat , Elizabeth sat on the edge of the bed and put her arm round his shoulders . |
| 18 | I think he could cope all right but at the back of his mind will always be the fact that possibly he let the party down . |
| 19 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 20 | He let the towel drop and dug around in a drawer for some underwear . |
| 21 | He let the paper fall into his lap . |
| 22 | He let the girl jog past him and then jumped out on to her back ; she never even heard him until his arms were around her body . |
| 23 | He let the young man go and was relieved that the telephone rang before the Substitute could speak . |
| 24 | He let the matter drop . |
| 25 | He let the words sink , and he wrote sharply , and his eyes never left the boy . |
| 26 | He let the young man out through the front door . |
| 27 | Halfway down he knew it was n't going to stop so he switched everything off , kept the brakes on to the end , and as it hit the grass he let the brakes off . |
| 28 | He let the Colonel go , then ducked out of the tavern door into the street . |
| 29 | He let the man run . |
| 30 | He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival . |