Example sentences of "has let [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 2 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 3 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 4 | Platt has let me down |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 8 | I can imagine the man in the evenings , slumped in his armchair , a glass in his hand , brooding on how life has let him down . |
| 9 | The Christian life should be one of joy and peace , they feel , so either they have failed God or he has let them down — though they feel guilty for thinking so . |
| 10 | ‘ As you all know , ’ she said , ‘ ever since the Pack was formed we 've held our meetings in this fine old barn , which Farmer Maynard has let us have for our own use . |
| 11 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 12 | Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction . |
| 13 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 14 | The public has been marvellous it is big business and local Government that has let us down . ’ |
| 15 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 16 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 17 | To commit yourself when everyone has let you down . |
| 18 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 19 | Much more important , the interior ministry has let it be known that it is dropping its draconian controls on the use of photocopying machines . |
| 20 | Mr Major has let it be known privately that the chancellor will not be moved in the New Year reshuffle . |
| 21 | John Major too has let it be known he believes President Clinton 's foreign policy to be virtually indistinguishable from that of George Bush . |
| 22 | ‘ I cross that bridge quite often and I am surprised the county council has let it go so far . |