Example sentences of "to let [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come . |
| 2 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 3 | There 's no way I intend to let you out of this bed until you 've promised that you 'll marry me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And as I said , there 's no way I 'm going to let you out of this bed until I have your answer in the affirmative . ’ |
| 5 | Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m . |
| 6 | It 's awful to let her in for all this . ’ |
| 7 | Say me a word , one enlightening word , to let him out of this cage . |
| 8 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 9 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 10 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |