Example sentences of "the [noun] to let [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've managed to persuade the CO to let me chuck Assistant Adjutant . |
| 2 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 4 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 5 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 6 | In this case there is only one honest situation — to ask the President to let me resign . ’ |
| 7 | I slammed the kitchen door , kicked the cat with my bare foot , rushed into the bedroom and flung open the window to let him run out . |
| 8 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 9 | There have been few new diplomatic moves though in Baghdad today , meanwhile the families of two women shown in a video recorded in Kuwait , are pleading with the Iraqis to let them bring their newly born children home . |
| 10 | Here are two extreme examples at opposite ends of the range to let you assess how close your writing is to one or the other . |
| 11 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 12 | ‘ Have you been into the hall to let them have your particulars ? ’ queried the WVS woman running the stall . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall convince the parents to let me come and stay with you in the holidays , ’ Antonia had promised . |
| 14 | You 're not the type to let yourself get carried away like that , are you ? — Forget I said it , will you ? |
| 15 | ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’ |
| 16 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 17 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 18 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 19 | In any case the old man was n't the sort to let you take a close look at anything that did n't directly concern you . ’ |
| 20 | The idea that he was alive crystallized the need to let him know that we were trying to help him . |
| 21 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 22 | It went against the grain to let him win . |
| 23 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |
| 24 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 25 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 26 | She 'll have to bribe the dezhurnaya to let you visit her at that time . ’ |
| 27 | She had introduced herself on the doorstep , often been invited in and asked the tenants to let her know if they had any problems with which she could help . |
| 28 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 29 | Later the mother , having taken a housekeeping job where she could have the child with her , wrote to the father to let her have the child and the £1 per week . |
| 30 | Every time he looked her way , that frightening compulsion went sweeping through her , the urge to let him look , let him absorb her until nothing was left and she no longer existed as a separate , individual entity . |