Example sentences of "he [verb] let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He agreed to let her go out , but threatened her life if she was to raise the alarm . |
| 2 | He goes let me read it . |
| 3 | The man goes He goes let me read it . |
| 4 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 5 | He refuses to let me have another go which I think is outrageous and tell him so . |
| 6 | He side-stepped to let her pass and they collided . |
| 7 | Why had he refused to let them meet her when they would certainly see her at the hacienda ? |
| 8 | Instead , he preferred to let them fade into irrelevance until he was ready to deliver the coup de grâce , which came in October , when he ordered all military personnel to withdraw from them . |
| 9 | He would not rush the boy , he had to let him come to him . |
| 10 | He had to let one go so he was in the shop a lot himself . |
| 11 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 12 | He made as if to say something , but I just beamed at him and he had to let it go . |
| 13 | Since she had begun by taking charge he had let her continue doing so , and had responded by being more feckless , lazier and more contrary than he was by nature . |
| 14 | And he had let her go rambling on . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 17 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 18 | The social worker who took on the referral found him somewhat embarrassed by his present circumstances , and the degree to which he had let himself go . |
| 19 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 20 | He had let something slide . |
| 21 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 22 | Arthur remade his day , for he had let it disintegrate stupidly . |
| 23 | But independence is indivisible , so Ceauşescu thought , he should not have let Romania become dependent on Western credit any more than he had let it fall under Soviet political control . |
| 24 | I wrote to him , asked what I should do , and he said let it lie . |
| 25 | But he refused to let her get near the subject . |
| 26 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 27 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 28 | But he refused to let it spoil his joy |
| 29 | He refused to let us pass , and my companion and I waited an hour before being rescued by a passing senior officer . |
| 30 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |