Example sentences of "let [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 2 | When we arrived , Mary let herself in the front door and we entered the dining room . |
| 3 | But bitter Ferguson refused to blame individuals for United 's continental calamity and said : ‘ We let them in the back door and they stole the game . ’ |
| 4 | But bitter Ferguson refused to blame individuals for United 's continental calamity and said : ‘ We let them in the back door and they stole the game . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , come on , Deveraugh , quit messing around and let me on the damn boat . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
| 7 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 8 | They just let themselves in the back door , he said , took the money and smashed the place . |
| 9 | But I used to bring them in anyway , and I used to let them out the back door if the housemother came in . |
| 10 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 11 | Times hard , thought of all days , thought the old lady still would n't let me of the old erm |
| 12 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 13 | ‘ But they 'll not let her beyond the parish-union boundary except by way of proper apprenticeship , ’ he added . |
| 14 | I would n't let him through the fucking door . |