Example sentences of "let [pron] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many are accompanied by mothers who 've let them take the day off . |
| 2 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 3 | He picked up the receiver , and without identifying himself just said , ‘ Could n't you have let me have an hour ? |
| 4 | Watch out Christopher let me move the table . |
| 5 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 6 | He let me know every day that he longed to escape from Reine altogether . |
| 7 | He let me take a box of groceries ( Sainsbury 's of course ) while he unloaded a couple of suitcases from the boot . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ? |
| 9 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |
| 10 | ‘ He let me become a blacksmith , which was his job too , only he never worked at it . |
| 11 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 12 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |
| 13 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 14 | And he let them see the gun . |
| 15 | In all his plans , he had never let himself contemplate an outcome as vicious as that . |
| 16 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 17 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 18 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 20 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 21 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 22 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 23 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 24 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 25 | I 'm going to Councillor Lines here who 's a Conservative Councillor , hang on Theresa , we have a Conservative Councillor let him answer the question . |
| 26 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 27 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 28 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 29 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 30 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |