Example sentences of "my [noun] to 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 | 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 . |