Example sentences of "let [pron] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 2 | Let me just ask Gill see if she knows about it . |
| 3 | Oh let me bloody see Cassie . |
| 4 | Let me now separate Luz from Saint-Sauveur . |
| 5 | If you let somebody else get stuff on your book , and some of them could n't pay it , you know , you 've no means of paying it . |
| 6 | Let him also take action against the Economic League , which prevents that right from being exercised by many people . |
| 7 | ‘ But , ’ the Admiral repeated , ‘ let us not blame computers . |
| 8 | ‘ You , like myself , my lord , are in but your thirteenth year — pray let us not give thought to death ! ’ |
| 9 | Health promotion has , rightly , moved away from the traditional approach , but let us not dismiss health education fully until it has been properly implemented , let alone evaluated . |
| 10 | I do not suggest that , just because Britain is less violent and less prone to crime than most other west European countries , that diminishes the necessity to concentrate on the picture at home , but let us not frighten people unnecessarily by comparisons with the rest of Europe and the United States . |
| 11 | Let us not lose hold on the essential proposition that the machine is indeterministic . |
| 12 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 13 | Let us now set Monday in its place . |
| 14 | Let us now introduce sustainability . |
| 15 | Do not let them quite forget Momma and Papa if possible . |