Example sentences of "[coord] let [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | If you then say , yes I think that 's very good I 'll do as you say you do not repeat no give them your money , or let them handle your money . |
| 3 | Or let him damn himself with his own words ? |
| 4 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 5 | ’ Let him go , let him tarry , let him sink , or let him swim |
| 6 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 7 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 8 | At the same time they should know how to order the right meal and whether , when work is done , they should take their client to the opera or a night club or let him go home . |
| 9 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 10 | But you do n't tell him Condor is a DIA operation or let him think you 're with DIA HUMINT . |
| 11 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 12 | Or let me die ! |
| 13 | Whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do . |
| 14 | They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months . |
| 15 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 16 | Miss Havisham had never intended to make me rich , or let me marry Estella . |
| 17 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 18 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 19 | or let me lay on my belly |
| 20 | Or let me come underneath . |
| 21 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 22 | Beside her stood a pleasant-looking , round , grey-haired woman , unsure of what to do , hesitating about whether to hush the weeping figure or let her cry . |
| 23 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 24 | Set up , or let us both set up , a credit for me . ’ |
| 25 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 26 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 27 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 28 | ‘ Leave me now , or let us fight until one of us is dead . |
| 29 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 30 | But on terms he knows the boy wo n't accept himself or let us accept for him . |