Example sentences of "[v-ing] to let [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical :
2 ‘ They 're obviously not going to let just anyone go burrowing through their Registry willy-nilly .
3 That O'Neill man is n't going to let up now he 's got his teeth into it .
4 You 've had a hectic few weeks , and the pace is not going to let up now .
5 Was he , Theodora wondered , going to let out the line in order the better to haul it in later .
6 Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it .
7 And canny manager Henry Forbes was n't going to let that long overdue overhaul of the County Donegal Joint Railway 's sole petrol-powered inspection loop go to waste .
8 American negotiators have opened the Japanese market for a variety of goods by threatening to let loose the protectionists in Congress .
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