Example sentences of "to let [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 2 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 3 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 4 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 5 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 7 | If the client refuses to let them communicate with the auditors , then they should turn the job down . |
| 8 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
| 9 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
| 10 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 11 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |
| 12 | He was going to let you come to the sanatorium to see me . |
| 13 | After the program has finished it displays the ‘ Press any key ’ message to let you return to the editing screen . |
| 14 | I am writing to let you know about the arrangements for returning to you those items from the SRO which were kindly lent to our Robert Adam exhibition , ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ . |
| 15 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 16 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 17 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |
| 18 | She tried to get him to let her check in the bar first . |
| 19 | And TODAY really did show her the way home by persuading Captain Nick Fletcher to let her sit in the cockpit with him . |
| 20 | British Rail used to let her travel in the guard 's van , but has now changed its rules . |
| 21 | I had to plead with you to let her come to the party , ’ Mother said . |
| 22 | Ruth could never understand Charlotte 's unwillingness to let her help with the baby . |
| 23 | But he refused to let her get near the subject . |
| 24 | Of course , we 'll have to let him go in the morning . ’ |
| 25 | But it is better to let him mingle among the guests and take the candid shots which add to the colour and fun of the day . |
| 26 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 27 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |
| 28 | He opened one gate slowly , trying not to let it scrape on the gravel . |
| 29 | Even in defeat Germany was too valuable — strategically and economically — for either East or West to let it fall into the hands of the other . |
| 30 | Nor would he be able to let us know about the reversal of the thermodynamic arrow , or even bank his winnings , because he would be trapped behind the event horizon of the black hole . ) |