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 .
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