Example sentences of "would let [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd let him stay on his own at any rate . |
| 2 | Stopped me and told me he 'd let him go to St Francis Xavier 's . |
| 3 | It was n't going to be easy , arguing with someone from her inferior position , but she 'd be damned if she 'd let him speak to her like that ! |
| 4 | He rather thought he 'd let him stew for a while ; with the murder investigation on , he could n't get far — or he 'd be a fool to try , and Peckham was no fool . |
| 5 | ‘ They might have happened by now if you 'd just let me see this … opera , TV series , pop-up-book , whatever the hell it is ; and if you 'd let me talk to a few people . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me explain to Old Red . |
| 7 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me sleep in another bed . |
| 9 | Oh , if only he 'd let me go with him ! ’ |
| 10 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 11 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me look at it . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd let her settle into the new surroundings — that way I 'd seem more supernumerary . |
| 13 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 14 | His hold on her had slackened slightly , but she did n't feel sure he 'd let her escape without an undignified fight , so she did n't push her luck . |
| 15 | I 'd let it go by and |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe she 'd let you enter with me , if she knew it was a true vocation . ’ |
| 17 | She would let him stay at the breast long after the milk had gone and the gentle , pulling movement as he continued to suck though he was no longer hungry were soothing . |
| 18 | She would let him know in a fortnight . |
| 19 | It would be best , perhaps , if you would let me finish before asking anything . |
| 20 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ If I had a bit more pay , he would let me come to you , you would have to keep me in grub if I was an apprentice would n't you ? |
| 22 | If only Ace would let her go to the pits to check for herself ! |
| 23 | But she seemed to fidget him ; he would let her stay for a while and then say , ‘ Run along , duckie , ca n't you see I 'm busy ? ’ |
| 24 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 25 | Nell would never rest until she could get closer to confirm her worst suspicions , and paradoxically it was the woman in her that provided the intensity of emotion that would let nothing stand in her way . |
| 26 | If it were not for my concern for my grandmother , I would — I would put you out of the car right now , I would let you wait beside the road until someone took pity on you and offered to drive you back to Milano . ’ |
| 27 | Or we could apply some kind of transformation which would stretch out the tails of the distribution , which would let us stick with arithmetic procedures and avoid multiplicative models . |
| 28 | To think he would let it fold for the sake of enormous personal gain is , quite frankly , ludicrous . |
| 29 | He would let it pass for now . |
| 30 | ‘ Dearest ghost , did you imagine I would let it go to that hag of a cousin of mine ? |