Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They needed the captain back on the rails immediately , and they knew the best way to do this was let him simmer down for 24 hours . |
| 2 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 3 | ‘ George Duffield let her breeze along for six furlongs on Saturday morning and she just flew . |
| 4 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 5 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 6 | Let them find out for themselves . |
| 7 | Luckily , you can now plonk your curious infants in front of Knowledge Adventure and let them find out for themselves . |
| 8 | PAMELA : Pray , your honour , let me go down for it is not for me to hold an argument with your honour . |
| 9 | Well , maybe I 'll play you some time and let you find out for yourself , eh , Major Karr ? ’ |
| 10 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 11 | He watched George going into MacDougalls , let him settle down for three minutes and then he 'd strike . |
| 12 | Let him find out for himself . |
| 13 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 14 | I thought it just as well to let you find out for yourself . ’ |
| 15 | and he 's Ron you 're going to experience a lot of things that you 're not going be happy about he says but I 'll let you find out for yourself . |
| 16 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 17 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |