Example sentences of "my [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 5 | I persuaded my father to let us lodge the papers in the Archive when I came here . |
| 6 | well my Lord let me clarify and be quite clear |
| 7 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 8 | erm my Lord let me deal with G first cos I , as |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |