Example sentences of "have let me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 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 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 9 | Still , I suppose I ca n't complain : you could have let me drown , after all . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You should have let me nick them off him . ’ |
| 11 | He picked up the receiver , and without identifying himself just said , ‘ Could n't you have let me have an hour ? |
| 12 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
| 13 | She should have let me prescribe for her ; I know an excellent liniment … " |
| 14 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 15 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 16 | You should have let me fall , like your friend . |
| 17 | Dad would n't have let me , but he held back because he did n't want to upset Mum and I took advantage . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 19 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 20 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You should have let me kill him ! ’ |
| 22 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |
| 23 | You should have let me go . ’ |
| 24 | Or she 'd have let me know . |
| 25 | If you 'd have let me in I could have washed your back for you . |
| 26 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 27 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 28 | If you 'd have let me know I could have |
| 29 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 30 | Supposed to have let me know last night again . |