Example sentences of "[vb past] let him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spinners Padmore , Jumadeen and Imtiaz Ali did the bulk of the bowling and , as far as Lloyd was concerned , it was they who had let him down . |
| 2 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 3 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 4 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 5 | They said goodbye and she felt she had let him down , that her unresponsiveness had been noted but not commented upon . |
| 6 | She often felt that she had let him down . |
| 7 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 8 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 9 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 10 | He began handing cards to some of the people who had let him take their picture . |
| 11 | She had let him have it to comfort him because he minded leaving home and their mother more than she did . |
| 12 | The bloke was a fucking nutter and she had let him tie her up ! |
| 13 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
| 14 | It had let him down badly on some occasions , but , on balance , nobody could deny that it had served him extremely well . |
| 15 | He carried the flowers and the hat in one hand like a rejected suitor whose props had let him down . |
| 16 | The same officer who had let him say goodbye to his friend Boris , but she did n't tell him that . |
| 17 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 18 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 19 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 20 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 21 | But instead , she had let him drive her back to the flat ; had stood by in mute acquiescence while he 'd ransacked her drawers and cupboards and packed her a bag . |
| 22 | ‘ Forget it — I 'm not talking to you in your suite ! ’ she snapped , chagrined by the way she had let him lead her . |
| 23 | This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty . |
| 24 | But they too had let him down . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 27 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |