Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’ |
| 3 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 4 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 5 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 6 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 7 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 8 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 9 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 10 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 11 | Like a zombie she let him lead her from Tivoli , allowed him to fasten the seatbelt of the Mercedes round her , followed him into the apartment , standing motionless while he switched on the soft wall lighting . |
| 12 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 13 | For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place . ’ |
| 14 | Too confused to respond , Sarella let him mould her beneath his touch until he ran his hands violently over her hips , locking her tight in a way that seemed shockingly intimate after the coldness that had preceded it , and then she felt a searing rapport as her body responded hungrily to his touch . |
| 15 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 16 | But she let him help her into a chair . |
| 17 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 18 | And she was so terrified she let him take me to — he said — the women 's hospital . |
| 19 | He should never have let her talk him into letting her give hers first when they had been deciding how to handle this whole situation . |
| 20 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |
| 21 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 22 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 23 | Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme , |
| 24 | Charlotte hung back in a corner of the room , and let them encircle him with their attentions . |
| 25 | Let them lead us to it . |
| 26 | You let them visit you on that night and that 's it . |
| 27 | Settle down with a good book , and let them blow themselves to bits . |
| 28 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 29 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 30 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |