Example sentences of "let [pers pn] take the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For many are accompanied by mothers who 've let them take the day off .
2 ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ?
3 Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him .
4 So Deborah returned along the DANGER path on Farmer Plant 's horse , which was a big one named Sultan and she enjoyed it enormously , especially as Farmer Plant let her take the reins when she told him she knew how to ride .
5 Usually , I know exactly what I want , but it is much better if you can get other people to do it and let them take the credit .
6 Let me take the child off you , Melanie . ’
7 Let me take the dress to Donna while you find something else to put on . ’
8 Let me take the university manifestation as perhaps the simplest .
9 Let me take the example of religious experience .
10 And ou and going back to Mr Heselton , he has said i , I 've got a negative factor for him at the moment in terms of minus eight fifty , but let let me let me take the figure which is actually quoted in the County Council 's table of nine fifty dwellings .
11 Usually they give you a , a thing to return it , you know , a thing that you do n't want it , girls let you take the orders down the ware house , oh , put the return it too cos the , cos there 's nothing in there .
12 Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals .
13 Jane Clark , 50 , said : ‘ I can no longer stand idly by and let him take the blame . ’
14 Let us take the question of the ladies ' toilets which you asked me about .
15 Let us take the hotel , bearing in mind the fundamental principle of modern hotel-keeping : the perfect guest never leaves the hotel .
16 Let us take the activity of running .
17 Since it has already been mentioned , let us take the case of the so-called Breeches Bible , from the reading in Genesis iii.7 ‘ and they sowed fig leaves together , and made themselves breeches .
18 For further illustration , let us take the case of Browns Transport Europe ( BTE ) .
19 Let us take the case of the girl who , at 14 or 15 , becomes pregnant .
20 Let us take the case of an ionic solid .
21 Although such remarks are apt to change from limpid truths to self-evident fallacies under a sufficiently close inspection , let us take the risk of saying that predicative position holds no particular mysteries .
22 Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd .
23 To see the implications , let us take the example where the production functions are Cobb-Douglas , so that is constant , and where the corporate sector is relatively labour-intensive in terms of value .
24 Let us take the example of a band D property containing two adults , whose council tax for standard spending is £400 .
25 Let us take the example of sexual dimorphism once again .
26 Let us take the motion of A and B to be non-relativistic , so that .
27 Let us take the sodium chloride lattice , for example .
28 Let us take the variable x to cover or range over certain conceivable events or conditions or whatever — in fact individual properties or sets of them — which in fact did not occur .
29 Let us take the number of 16 to 18-year-olds .
30 K : ‘ It is , because we do n't have room for a washing machine and they let us take the laundry to them . ’
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