Example sentences of "[verb] let [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 4 | ‘ Except when we were making love — that was the only time you seemed to let me anywhere near you . ’ |
| 5 | She was walking unarmed into dangerous territory , but something deep inside was urging her on , refusing to let her back off now . |
| 6 | Jamie began to let him out daily , down three flights of stairs to a yard where buckets of water stood beside a drain . |
| 7 | But I do try to do let them down gently — unlike the way I handle my opponents . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Even if you keep her in another day or two , you 'll have to let her out sometime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It had let him down badly on some occasions , but , on balance , nobody could deny that it had served him extremely well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
| 13 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 14 | ‘ But it started to topple so they had to let it back down on my legs again . |
| 15 | They 're normally out tonight she 's let me down again . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's let me down twice today , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 17 | And then , you have to let it out then . |