Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 2 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 3 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 4 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 5 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 6 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 7 | If you let them go out at night exactly . |
| 8 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 9 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 10 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 11 | He flinched as Sweetheart lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back into her lap with a sigh of exasperation . |
| 12 | Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist . |
| 13 | Let them dangle on to floor . |
| 14 | Oh well , let them get on with it . |
| 15 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 16 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 17 | The band are intelligent boys , they know what they are doing and we let them get on with it . |
| 18 | If they were really brother and sister , they were a strange pair , but that was nobody 's business but their own , and like all the other members of the company , Noreen just let them get on with it . |
| 19 | Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’ |
| 20 | Let them get on with it . |
| 21 | One , he recalls , told him : ‘ This is what people wanted — now let them get on with it . ’ |
| 22 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |
| 23 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 24 | His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ . |
| 25 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ? |
| 27 | I could not stop them , so I rather let them get on with it … |
| 28 | The guitar had no place here and the guitarist sat back with a grin , his back to the open case , and let them get on with it . |
| 29 | Turner let them get on with it . |
| 30 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |