Example sentences of "my [noun] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be my privilege to let you buy me a cognac . |
| 2 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 3 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 4 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 5 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 6 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 7 | I persuaded my father to let us lodge the papers in the Archive when I came here . |
| 8 | well my Lord let me clarify and be quite clear |
| 9 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 10 | erm my Lord let me deal with G first cos I , as |
| 11 | We 'd be sitting or standing watching the traffic go by , Dawn alternately flapping about desperately trying to get away and perching on my glove letting me stroke and soothe her . |
| 12 | My Lords let me like the Noble Viscount like Lord and the Noble Lord , Lord of Aberdale and indeed the Noble Lord , Lord of Haringey , begin by welcoming the decision of the Government to erm drop the provision in the Bill which gave the Secretary of State the power to appoint the Chairman of the Policy Authority . |
| 13 | You are fully acquainted with our difficulties in Salzburg — you know my wretched income , why I kept my promise to let you go away , and all my various troubles . |
| 14 | Before the editors of trade magazines start sticking sub-editors ' spikes in my effigy let me explain that their publications perform a valuable function and are extremely interesting to their readers . |
| 15 | They thought that my father was a bad parent because he dressed Eric in girl 's clothes and let him run wild , and my mother let them take him because she did n't like children in general and Eric in particular ; she thought he was bad for her karma in some way . |