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Example sentences of "let [pers pn] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly .
2	The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again .
3	They 're normally out tonight she 's let me down again .
4	The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once .
5	‘ He 's let me down twice today , ’ O'Hara said .
6	How can you defend her , Claudia , when she 's let you down so badly ? ’
7	It had let him down badly on some occasions , but , on balance , nobody could deny that it had served him extremely well .
8	And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so .
9	To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights .
10	‘ I 'm not having my Dad let him out again .
11	Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence .
12	Ten minutes later , Garvey knocked softly at the door and Gabriel let him in along with Lucie , Izzie and the musicians .
13	It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again .
14	In spite of the fact that he had let her down badly and most devastating of all , even though he now had a new love — Beth still pined for him .
15	He had never let her down before .
16	Nan-Nan let her down badly .
17	It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price .
18	She let it out gently , not wanting to do anything sudden or jerky .
19	You have n't let us down yet , so keep those letters coming in !
20	You have n't let us down yet , so keep those letters coming in !
21	You have n't let us down yet , so keep those letters coming in !
22	During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable .
23	‘ It 's a great disappointment that we dominated most of the game but let them back in after leading 2–0 .
24	But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all
25	Let them down gently .
26	we went up there with the dogs and let them in in to the burrow .
27	If you let them out too soon they are more likely to commit the offence again . ’
28	The dwarf used to catch some in his hands , and then let them out suddenly under my nose .
29	Oh that 's just a thank you because the person in the car behind let me through so I just said thank you .
30	He said well I give you that Avenger estate he said cos I thought you were building your house , that 'll be handy for you you know yeah you did and you let me down badly !