Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In the middle of our talk I began to speak as if to some demon , telling him to hold his tongue and not interrupt my talk , and let me serve these gentlemen for it was already late . |
2 | Let me give some examples . |
3 | Let me clear these magazines . |
4 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
5 | ‘ Let me finish these papers and my lunch and we 'll go along there , eh ? ’ |
6 | Come now , Mr Lytham , let me sign these documents while I still have the strength . ’ |
7 | I asked yer ter let me do these books 'cos I wanted ter sort out the bills an' see where we can make savin 's . |
8 | Let me ask some members of the congregation a few questions : |
9 | Let me ask these questions then we 'll like agree . |
10 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
11 | Let me write those lists cos there be hard to , hard to read . |
12 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
13 | ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’ |
14 | Let me put these things upstairs . ’ |
15 | Let me put some questions to you : |
16 | I stayed wooden , afraid of the power that let me say those words ; afraid to hold him too hard or too close . |
17 | Th they let me have these scales . |
18 | In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did |
19 | ‘ Let me see both hands — slowly , ’ he instructed , his voice strained . |
20 | let me see these names , who wrote that other review . |
21 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
22 | Let us contrast those achievements with Labour 's record in office . |
23 | First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive . |
24 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
25 | Secondly , to make the mathematics easier , let us make some assumptions . |
26 | Let us examine these points . |
27 | Let us examine some examples . |
28 | Now that we have provisionally fixed what a signal is , and how one may be recognized , let us consider some examples of signals — the songs of birds , the pheromones of moths and ants , and the dance of honeybees — before we consider the theoretical question of why signals have evolved in the form that we see in nature . |
29 | Let us consider these points in relation to a hypothetical case . |
30 | Let us consider both types of control a little more fully . |