Sentence examples for on't let from inspiring English sources

on't let the bastards grind you down" was one of the key quotes from the 1960 Albert Finney movie Saturday Night & Sunday Morning.

O -- why did you not let me know?

Simon Streatfeild East Grinstead, West Sussex Mrs Thatcher, I seem to recall, once said that her favourite hymn (Letters, 11 April), was George Matheson's O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go – though whether or not this had anything to do with the fact that the tune to which it is normally sung is St Margaret, I do not know.

Obed's father not only let all the local children put on an ice show in his rink, piping John Philip Sousa through the house windows, but provided the entertainment, skating around with a lemon pie that ended up making contact with Grandpa's face.

I did not let Mo'o carry the basket.

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"[D]o not let passion defeat you", his pamphlet advised, "ALONE, nor with a sexual friend.... Discipline in the single years, prepares us for the essential discipline of happy marriages".

"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!

"O, let me not be mad," he says, giving proper weight to the onset of fear.

LEAR: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!

He need not look much further than his own fears of aging to invest lines like "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven" with an almost overpowering pathos.