Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well can I can I amend my question I mean is the is that a full year cost or is it let me try it again erm .
2 He let me hold it once .
3 He let them lead him away , straight ahead between the rows of cauldrons .
4 ‘ I should have let him hit you properly ! ’ she snapped .
5 Eva had n't let him see it before ; she just bought it quickly when we sold the house in Beckenham and had to get out .
6 He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ?
7 ‘ Eileen says her whiskey cake is better , but I have n't let her prove it yet . ’
8 The way she 'd always known it , when you decided to throw a party , you threw a party ; you pushed back the furniture , you got all the food together yourself , you invited close friends who knew each other and for a while you let them invade your most private and personal space .
9 People appreciate what you do for them so much more if you let them do it occasionally .
10 Let others have felt this way , let them feel it now ; it would never be exactly like this , never be identical .
11 Let them think him high-handed ; he was damned if he was going to let this greasy television pundit push him about .
12 He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ .
13 But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity .
14 ‘ Could we ? ’ both Leith and Sebastian asked together , the idea of renting accommodation swiftly tossed aside , as it quickly sank in that their father , trustee to the considerable amount of money left to them by his father , seemed prepared to use his discretionary right and let them have it now .
15 But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us .
16 Let me show you let me show you again
17 Let me tell let me tell you exactly Jubilee line is going ahead , er very large sums of money in the next three years
18 Let me tell you briefly what happened .
19 Who will get this arteriosclerosis , as you sit here , let me tell you again .
20 ‘ Dr. Briant , let me tell you here and now that we are not here to make judgments .
21 Let me tell you now , you did n't .
22 But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features .
23 Let me tell you more , dear boy , ’ said Toby in the sonorous manner he adopts when he is either about to state an immortal truth , or browbeat you , or both .
24 Yeah let me tell you actually yeah the following week .
25 Let me bring him here .
26 Supposing — let me stop you here — supposing you have a hundred people
27 Right let me stop you there because I think you 've got maybe the wrong end of the stick .
28 Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on .
29 Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ .
30 But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical .
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