Example sentences of "[adv prt] and let " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
| 2 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 3 | The Audi was only yards from her now and Donna decided to pull in and let it pass . |
| 4 | The britzka overhauled Sam and Sarah halfway up the hill from Trouville ; Nora made the coachman pull in and let Sarah climb up ; he and Sam walked beside the horses to the top . |
| 5 | I think I 'm not she will then come in and let herself in , I have to be in at three |
| 6 | Erm a passing loop there , for trains to be able to just pull in and let anything going the other way , because it was mainly single track from er from onwards . |
| 7 | To ‘ catch ’ it you might have to slow down and let it come towards you . |
| 8 | Then they leave them there , in among her own kittens , and when she returns the chances are that she will calmly lie down and let all the kittens feed from her without examining them in detail . |
| 9 | She 'll lie down and let him walk over her till the end of her days . |
| 10 | ‘ Please , ’ she asked , genuinely fearful now , it seemed to Hope , who relished the fact , ‘ will you sit down and let me talk to you ? ’ |
| 11 | Next it was the tussore silk smock ( Liberty ) , rather a babyish garment ; Nannie had let it down and let it out since Nicandra was six . |
| 12 | Let the hall fall down and let the so-called experts quarrel elsewhere . |
| 13 | you wo n't move over and let a labour government introduce a national minimum wage . |
| 14 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 15 | If he 's there , one of them can trot off and let us know , then we can poodle round and petrol bomb the place . |
| 16 | Surely somebody would stand up and let her sit down ? |
| 17 | You can come up and let yourself go — shout about and that and muck about . |
| 18 | I stopped when she hissed at me to shut up and let her get on with it . |
| 19 | Mrs Margaret Charles , living 200 yards from the crash , said : ‘ I am furious because I do not think pilots should just bale out and let the plane go on and crash into a village . |
| 20 | So I had to go out and let Ashley and Kelly out |
| 21 | ‘ We will not sit back and let others help themselves to our intellectual property , ’ Andy Grove , Intel 's combative chief executive , said . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 23 | I decided to lie back and let it happen , and put it down to ‘ supernature ’ ; I 've witnessed it before . |
| 24 | This is mind-boggling black-comic stuff , but Holland , perhaps overwhelmed by the weight of the Holocaust taking place just out of frame , seems to sit back and let it happen . |
| 25 | Kirov said nothing , content to sit back and let the full impact of his well-constructed lie sink in . |
| 26 | Why not go back and let Charlie get rid of him for me ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was the kind of person who would sit back and let my manager look after things , ’ he says , ‘ and that 's never a good idea . |
| 28 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 29 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 30 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |