Sentence examples for let up a bit from inspiring English sources

And the Home Office can let up a bit and be reasonable in those cases".

"The Home Office could let up a bit and be reasonable.

When the rain let up a bit, I strolled through the little garden beds surrounding the poolside patio.

At the beginning, I tried to charm her with stories of my lacrosse exploits at Penn, hoping she would let up a bit.

After their fifth goal the Germans seemed to let up a bit, either to spare Brazil more shame or to save their energy for the final.

The abuse let up a bit after the summer of 2007, when the company had a clamorously successful season in London.

When Mr. Maazel's penchant for control lets up a bit, he can deliver exciting and responsive performances.

"Any slowing in the pace of purchases will be akin to letting up a bit on the gas pedal as the car picks up speed, not to beginning to apply the brakes," he said.

Consider the choice of the chairman, Ben S. Bernanke: "To use the analogy of driving an automobile, any slowing in the pace of purchases will be akin to letting up a bit on the gas pedal as the car picks up speed, not to beginning to apply the brakes," he said last week.

I know a lot of people who get this way about Borat, and who – when Sacha Baron Cohen's creation is at his most horrifyingly revealing of an interviewee – actually have to leave the room or bury their head in a pillow until it lets up a bit.

Mr Bernanke said that the tapering of the programme was akin to "letting up a bit on the gas pedal" and "not beginning to apply the brakes".