Example sentences of "let him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 2 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 3 | If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So he had n't let him out . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not having my Dad let him out again . |
| 7 | Surely Lee had n't let him get loose . |
| 8 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 9 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 10 | Phillis said , ‘ She would n't have let him touch me if she was here . ’ |
| 11 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 12 | Eva had n't let him see it before ; she just bought it quickly when we sold the house in Beckenham and had to get out . |
| 13 | He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy . |
| 14 | How would you introduce him to God who would never let him down , especially since God is less certain to him than human beings who have let him down ? |
| 15 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 16 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They said goodbye and she felt she had let him down , that her unresponsiveness had been noted but not commented upon . |
| 19 | She often felt that she had let him down . |
| 20 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 21 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 22 | Why could n't she have let him take her to one of those ? |
| 23 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 24 | ‘ I should n't have let him ? ’ |
| 25 | Had she let him down ? |
| 26 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 27 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 28 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 29 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 30 | ‘ Better not let him hear you say that , sir . |