Example sentences of "let him [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 2 | I gave him a fair price for it , and I have let him carry on trading in smack . ’ |
| 3 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 4 | This body of mine in which I had taken no pleasure or pride , he was honouring , saying to it , ‘ I love you , I love you , I love you , ’ believing me to be asleep , and I let him go on believing . |
| 5 | For the second question and answer we did n't even bother to load the camera , though as a matter of courtesy , we let him carry on bawling . |
| 6 | Worse , she had been prepared to let him go on using her , had he chosen to do so . |
| 7 | She looked back at him now , at the handsome , sculpted face , and was aware of a sudden inexplicable urge to let him go on believing that she was married . |
| 8 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 9 | It seemed pointless to let him go on reproaching himself . |
| 10 | 4 Copy of letter to Giles Askham — we need to let him know where to meet up in Lincoln 's Inn Fields . |
| 11 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |
| 12 | He 'd thought that it was a nickname , that it meant nothing special , and they 'd let him go on thinking that way until he 'd found out different . |