Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [vb infin] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He flinched as Sweetheart lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back into her lap with a sigh of exasperation . |
| 4 | It was not until a long time afterwards that Catriona thought she understood the reason Sarah seemed young , which was simple : she looked directly at everyone and let them look back at her . |
| 5 | ‘ Let me go back with you . |
| 6 | Let me go back to my earlier discussion of gravitational collapse . |
| 7 | Let me go back to er the inco er the sales file . |
| 8 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 9 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 10 | But just let me come back to the the point I want to make , it is it evident to us from what was said yesterday collectively by the District Councils , that they could live with the figure of forty one thousand two hundred , as proposed by the County Council , without a new settlement . |
| 11 | Er let me come back on that issue the er |
| 12 | I let her go back to that flat . ’ |
| 13 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
| 14 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 15 | Father Poole raised a hand feebly in farewell , and let it drop back into his lap . |
| 16 | If the pointer is moving slowly back , then let it go back to the edge of the circle ; then 1 turn towards the movement 2°-5° ( according to rate of change ) until it is steady . |
| 17 | Let us walk back to the tavern as if there is nothing wrong . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In that case , ’ said Jaq , ‘ let us drop back into true space . ’ |
| 19 | Actually they perhaps let us go back on them then |
| 20 | Let us go back to the claim that the binary oppositions of componential semantics are natural and innate . |
| 21 | Let us go back to the Dan Air Boeing 707 accident at Lusaka . |
| 22 | Let us go back to the point about criticism taking place against a background of criteria . |
| 23 | So let us go back to marriage . |
| 24 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Let us go back to the house . |
| 26 | ‘ Let us go back to the Place of the Dead . |
| 27 | ‘ Let us go back to the harem , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Let us go back to the moment you found the body , the moment you realized that it was a body . |
| 29 | Let us go back to the beginning , to nineteen nineteen . |
| 30 | Let us think back to the proposition of the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , who reminded us of our history . |