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 . |