Example sentences of "[noun] let [pron] " in BNC.

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31 The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road .
32 Mat. let me go .
33 Wycliffe let it go at that .
34 This thwe-thauk , or blood drinking , sealed eternal comradeship and they all assumed titles signifying their compact : Aung San became Bo Teza ( Fire General ) , Thakin Shu Maung , a former postal employee , became Bo Ne Win ( Sun of Glory General ) , Hla Pe , who had assisted the first escape , was Bo Let Ya ( Right Hand General ) , while Aung San 's first fellow-traveller , Hla Myaing , was Bo Yan Aung .
35 These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it .
36 Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen .
37 For the present let me put it on record that the main hold-up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing .
38 But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all
39 Again , the defence let them down , and despite reducing the deficit to only one goal before the break , Bradford won with plenty in hand against a stuttering home side .
40 Again , the defence let them down , and despite reducing the deficit to only one goal before the break , Bradford won with plenty in hand against a stuttering home side .
41 He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies .
42 ‘ I was only six , so the art direction let it down a bit , really .
43 Mum let me down
44 LABOUR Party branch members in Crook let it be known that they are looking for new blood to inject a little life and optimism into their ranks .
45 I just keep thinking that there must be a logical reason why Fernando let me go so easily — ’
46 A porter let us in and we were taken into a great yard .
47 Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought .
48 Posters and prints fared slightly better with a Twentieth Century Fox film poster of The Blue Max movie reaching £50 , although an original of the famous Winston Churchill Let Us Go Forward Together poster only fetched £45 , instead of the £100–200 estimated .
49 Enjoys travelling and nightlife- Let me be your knight in shining armour .
50 A Spanish driver let his fiery temper get the better of him when he was stopped by police .
51 Which is the or the fourteen inch television colour telly I know because , the blokes let us down !
52 Wanda let me in ?
53 In this case let us consider the healthy child and the illnesses that commonly occur in childhood .
54 The way we look at it is , there 's people out there want to kill me , and the authorities let you in here and give you access to more than we will probably ever get .
55 But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere .
56 So the first hopeful sign of realignment coming out of Labour 's leadership election was when Bryan Gould espoused devaluation — and the first disappointment was how rapidly he retreated when John Smith 's camp let it be known that , in their eyes , this disqualified Bryan as deputy leader .
57 Brown Owl let me and my friend crack an egg in a bowl .
58 Well it is a prison sentence let me tell you
59 I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done .
60 We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) .
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