Example sentences of "[verb] let [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 3 | You could 've let us use some of that eight , over eight million pounds that we have stuffed away , set aside to actually promote our social housing programme . |
| 4 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Platt has let me down |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 13 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 14 | Competition for student sales of monolingual dictionary is intense , and only HarperCollins has let its Cobuild dictionary creep above the £10 mark . |
| 15 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She 's a young girl who really has her feet planted on the ground and I do n't believe she has let herself be carried away by her success . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 22 | The public has been marvellous it is big business and local Government that has let us down . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | To commit yourself when everyone has let you down . |
| 26 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 27 | For Trusty Dusty Hare read Long John Liley , a rapidly emerging full-back who has let his boots do the talking whilst notching up the season 's fastest century . |
| 28 | Friends of the Earth 's Tropical Forest spokesman described the report as " the story of an ecological catastrophe in the making " , and added that " the government should have the courage to publish the report — after all , the British people paid for it … the government has let itself be led by the nose by the timber trade into suppressing the report for the narrow commercial advantage of those involved . " |
| 29 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 30 | Much more important , the interior ministry has let it be known that it is dropping its draconian controls on the use of photocopying machines . |