Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way she 'd always known it , when you decided to throw a party , you threw a party ; you pushed back the furniture , you got all the food together yourself , you invited close friends who knew each other and for a while you let them invade your most private and personal space . |
| 2 | People appreciate what you do for them so much more if you let them do it occasionally . |
| 3 | Let others have felt this way , let them feel it now ; it would never be exactly like this , never be identical . |
| 4 | Let them think him high-handed ; he was damned if he was going to let this greasy television pundit push him about . |
| 5 | He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ . |
| 6 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 7 | ‘ Could we ? ’ both Leith and Sebastian asked together , the idea of renting accommodation swiftly tossed aside , as it quickly sank in that their father , trustee to the considerable amount of money left to them by his father , seemed prepared to use his discretionary right and let them have it now . |
| 8 | But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us . |
| 9 | Let me show you let me show you again |
| 10 | Let me tell let me tell you exactly Jubilee line is going ahead , er very large sums of money in the next three years |
| 11 | Let me tell you briefly what happened . |
| 12 | Who will get this arteriosclerosis , as you sit here , let me tell you again . |
| 13 | ‘ Dr. Briant , let me tell you here and now that we are not here to make judgments . |
| 14 | Let me tell you now , you did n't . |
| 15 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 16 | Let me tell you more , dear boy , ’ said Toby in the sonorous manner he adopts when he is either about to state an immortal truth , or browbeat you , or both . |
| 17 | Yeah let me tell you actually yeah the following week . |
| 18 | Let me bring him here . |
| 19 | Supposing — let me stop you here — supposing you have a hundred people |
| 20 | Right let me stop you there because I think you 've got maybe the wrong end of the stick . |
| 21 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 22 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 23 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 24 | Colleagues , colleagues , let me remind you once more , they need us more than we need them . |
| 25 | Let me assure you straight away then , I see absolutely no conflict between having moral values and running a profit making business . |
| 26 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 27 | Let me make myself very plain : I will not become the brunt of any unsavoury gossip and publicity . |
| 28 | ‘ Let me make something quite clear to you , Alice , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 30 | Let me make it plain I do not want you or need you here . |