Example sentences of "[coord] let [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 32 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 33 | A degenerate male voice exhorted its hearers to give it love or let it die in peace . |
| 34 | Or let it mature , still wrapped , in a cold larder overnight , and reheat by steaming for 1 hr or so next day . |
| 35 | It is not only more kind , but more intelligent , to give it a rest or let it slow down . |
| 36 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 37 | The water was fine , as long as you did n't drink it or let it touch your skin . |
| 38 | He ca n't sell it or let it , of course , while Hepzibah 's living there . ’ |
| 39 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |
| 40 | By day we 'll offer to show you around the island or let you laze by the pool — the choice is yours . |
| 41 | You 'd think he would either apply for another one or , or let you have his . |
| 42 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 43 | Each time a guard arrived , either with food or to let me out to the lavatory , I asked for a book , and each time he said ‘ Yes ’ and did n't bring one . |
| 44 | Jenney wondered whether it is better to try and reduce congestion , or to let it increase , if we want fewer people to drive ? |
| 45 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 46 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 47 | Your natural long-range weapons are your feet and hands ; keep using them until the attacker backs off or lets you escape . |
| 48 | Be prepared for a breakdown in communication and for certain individuals to misbehave or let you down around the 12th and the 26th . |
| 49 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 50 | Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme , |
| 51 | It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again . |
| 52 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 53 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 54 | Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals . |
| 55 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 56 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 57 | Outside the door , Hastings scratched and , in her distress and confusion , Dorothea rose and let him in . |
| 58 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 59 | You know how I served your father , and let him live . |
| 60 | She put up a token resistance , but , knowing that she only existed on his sufferance , opened her mind to him and let him prowl . |