Example sentences of "[verb] to let [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Should she get her ears tested ? ’ he is asking himself , perhaps more anxiously than he really cares to let on . |
| 2 | Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals . |
| 3 | You 're more involved with her than you want to let on , are n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical : |
| 5 | Meanwhile , as a very temporary measure , wartime rent restriction was retained and , equally as a very temporary measure , since new houses would not be built to let commercially in these circumstances , a subsidy was introduced to bridge the gap — between pre-war and post-war rents . |
| 6 | But he forgot to let on that it was still being built — and did n't have any beer . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're obviously not going to let just anyone go burrowing through their Registry willy-nilly . |
| 8 | That O'Neill man is n't going to let up now he 's got his teeth into it . |
| 9 | You 've had a hectic few weeks , and the pace is not going to let up now . |
| 10 | Was he , Theodora wondered , going to let out the line in order the better to haul it in later . |
| 11 | Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it . |
| 12 | And canny manager Henry Forbes was n't going to let that long overdue overhaul of the County Donegal Joint Railway 's sole petrol-powered inspection loop go to waste . |
| 13 | In the present case the effect is helped by the realistic context , since the storm is still raging outside and whenever the door is opened to let in a new character the form-generating music rushes in as well in the shape of the hurricane . |
| 14 | And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited . |
| 15 | Mr Mieno does not want to let up until he is sure the job is done . |
| 16 | But the porters have also got the problem that they do n't want to let just anyone |
| 17 | ‘ When I remember it first it was a playroom for the Glynn children and any others they cared to let in ; a sort of clubhouse . |
| 18 | Riccardo Muti made a scathing denunciation from La Scala , news of the deficit broke , and Cresci 's double cashmere coat began to let in the cold . |
| 19 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na have to let Carly have your go now ? |
| 21 | The ‘ Dublin ’ trolley masts which did not have caps over the swivelling tops , were found to let in water and the top parts were soon fitted with waterproof canvas socks . |
| 22 | American negotiators have opened the Japanese market for a variety of goods by threatening to let loose the protectionists in Congress . |
| 23 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 24 | Although classes have finished please try to let as many people as possible know of this occasion and make every effort to attend to show our affection and appreciation of the years of help and skill Beryl gave to Medau . |
| 25 | In fact , she was so far ahead of the majority on points that she could afford to let up a bit . |
| 26 | America can not afford to let down its blacks for much longer . |
| 27 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 28 | It was impossible , in any case , to bath her , because they were only allowed to let out the bathwater on a falling tide . |
| 29 | The eye is like a camera : the glass on the camera lens is the cornea ; the aperture is the pupil ; and the shutter is the beautifully coloured iris , which contracts and relaxes to let in more or less light . |
| 30 | It was the only chance they had to let off any steam . |