Example sentences of "[adv] let [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 2 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 3 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 4 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 5 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 6 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 7 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 8 | " Then had n't you better let me in ? " |
| 9 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 10 | The guards at the palace 's main gate swiftly let them through but , as they debouched out of the tree-lined path front of the palace , a gruesome sight awaited them . |
| 11 | ‘ T-t-two s-sevens are f-f-fourteen , ’ gasped Rupert , whereupon the Trunchbull , true to her word , opened her hand and quite literally let him go . |
| 12 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 13 | Well if you want anything er er photocopied or put together let me know wo n't you ? |
| 14 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 15 | Together let us shine . ’ |
| 16 | Actually they perhaps let us go back on them then |
| 17 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 18 | He suddenly let her go , turning away impatiently and pressing a bell . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was newspaper speculation that the ‘ courting couple ’ were about to get married that convinced Jason it was time to turn the tide in favour of something nearer the truth and gently let everyone into their secret that it was just one big publicity stunt which , once started , was easier to carry on with than deny , and far more profitable in any event . |
| 20 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 21 | He only let her see what he wanted her to see , gave no hint of what he was really like , not the man inside . |
| 22 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 23 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 24 | He shouted her name , but she only let him in after he threatened to kick down the door . |
| 25 | Only let him reach Eretz ; Palestine was his star of hope , his refuge . |
| 26 | Only let him reach Eretz . |
| 27 | Only let him reach Eretz . |
| 28 | Only let me past the walls and I ask no more . ’ |
| 29 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 30 | Only let there be a five-minute delay and pots would be thrown , furniture overturned and the servant arriving , whether Teresa or Wilson herself , threatened with clenched fist . |