Example sentences of "[vb infin] let [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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1 | Others , perhaps the most doubting , may not dare to let themselves know their qualms . |
2 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
3 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
4 | You start to see a pattern developing in your study and you do not want to let yourself down by not studying today . |
5 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
6 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
7 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
8 | How could she have let herself be used by a man who held her in contempt ? |
9 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
10 | Oh , how could she have let herself be so easily tricked , so eager to believe that he had changed ? |
11 | Simon could n't afford to let himself be divorced ; Constanza did some extremely quixotic things and they managed to fix it so that she appeared to be the guilty party . |