Example sentences of "he had let " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 2 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 3 | He would not rush the boy , he had to let him come to him . |
| 4 | If there was a bit of low in the land , he had to let his plough bite in a little deeper at this spot to bring his furrows up level . |
| 5 | He had to let one go so he was in the shop a lot himself . |
| 6 | He made as if to say something , but I just beamed at him and he had to let it go . |
| 7 | He knew , though , that he had to let that anger die a bit before he confronted Sandra . |
| 8 | At one stage Mr Howes said he had hold of Alan 's arm … but his colleague was a dead weight , and he had to let go . |
| 9 | His name was Martin and what had happened that he had let Lucy go ? |
| 10 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 11 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 12 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 13 | He had let something slide . |
| 14 | Because she was so uncomplaining , he had let things slide . |
| 15 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 16 | ‘ Prof. Francis ’ was tolerated because he was so amiable ; he had let it be known that he had taught piano in an unnamed music conservatory somewhere , hence the professorship . |
| 17 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 18 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 19 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 20 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 21 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 22 | But independence is indivisible , so Ceauşescu thought , he should not have let Romania become dependent on Western credit any more than he had let it fall under Soviet political control . |
| 23 | A study of the failures at Sicily gave Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott three lines of thought : more training was essential — he had let Nos. 3 and 4 COPPs go out only with reluctance ; more attention was needed in fitting the suits , for which these teams had not been adequately measured ; and thirdly , the life-jackets they wore could not always be inflated in emergencies . |
| 24 | He had let the dealer from Hadleigh come , a man called Evans or Owens , one of those Welsh names , and sold him a brass lantern and two little carved tables and the sherry glasses . |
| 25 | He had let a light engine out of the down loop ready to go to Bolton and had refused the bell code for a fast down freight from Bradley Fold station box . |
| 26 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 27 | The social worker who took on the referral found him somewhat embarrassed by his present circumstances , and the degree to which he had let himself go . |
| 28 | He turned towards the stove so that she should n't see the flush of shame and dismay that he had let slip Berowne 's name . |
| 29 | They had followed , and he had let his feelings rip when the driver had lost the taxi at a traffic light . |
| 30 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |