Example sentences of "let [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 2 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 3 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 4 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 5 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 6 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 7 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 8 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 9 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 10 | She let herself drift off to memories of fiercely joyful nights that now … that now … |
| 11 | She let herself press back against him . |
| 12 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 13 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 14 | See the e the headmaster 's wife see another fella to early retirement last year and they 've let him go back on supply . |
| 15 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 16 | Yes , I think that 's If you , if your dog goes and bites somebody , an , you 're in trouble , because you 've let him get out of control , and |
| 17 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 18 | She let him carry on with his stupidity and offered no elaboration nor explanation of her terms . |
| 19 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 20 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 21 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 22 | She let him get away with it . |
| 23 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 24 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 25 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 26 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | If you 've let her get away from us , the only cut you 'll get is with this . ’ |
| 28 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 29 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 30 | She let her breath out in a hissing rush . |