Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] let " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was cold , that same unsmiling face , pinched and thin , his dark eyes cruel , as if he dared not let them be anything else . |
| 2 | But Gillian did not let this faze her . |
| 3 | Around this time he was a heavy drinker although , as a conscientious professional , he did not let it affect his game . |
| 4 | Doyle did not let go of the girl 's plait , but he jerked at it , to make her sit down . |
| 5 | The other two held their breath , waiting for the inevitable squeak , but the sensitive fingers did not let him down . |
| 6 | Asimov 's extraordinary output of 10 books a year did not let up , even after he suffered a heart attack in 1977 and triple bypass surgery two years later . |
| 7 | After a poor start , at the 10th , where he missed for his three from a mere 18ins , he did not let the birdies escape at the 11th and 12th . |
| 8 | EVEN AT five o'clock in the morning , in the flush of victory and vindication , John Major did not let himself go . |
| 9 | The heavy rain did not let up and soon the vast crowds had churned the whole area into a sea of mud . |
| 10 | But the Liberal leader did not let its transience spoil the effect . |
| 11 | He did , but did not let it interfere with his judgment . |
| 12 | She did not let the knife slip from her hand when the door burst open , and Nathan Holland appeared , having thrust his way past the servant . |
| 13 | Azadi did not let his irritation show . |
| 14 | Those teenagers left behind did not let their new skills go to waste . |
| 15 | His tone was mild , but , having heard of his reputation , I did not let that deceive me . |
| 16 | I did not let on that watching rugby training from 30 or 40 yards distance does not automatically allow one to discover the training team 's secrets . |
| 17 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 18 | Meredith Jones — who relished his protégé 's roughness — was aware of that and told his friend Philip Burton to keep an eye on him , make sure he did not let slip this second and last chance . |
| 19 | These examples have their parallels in Europe ; Britain did not let television loose during the Falklands campaign . |
| 20 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
| 21 | even after his marriage , to mow the lawn ; it gave her so little enjoyment that Clara wondered why she did not let it go to seed . |
| 22 | She did not let her gaze rise from this task . |
| 23 | Her heart could have ached , could have dragged her down , but she did not let it , was keeping that lump of a heart on a short cruel chain like a dangerous dog . |
| 24 | Deborah also doubted Sebastian , although she never let it show , or hoped she did not let it show . |
| 25 | It did not let him down . |
| 26 | It was their own secret world , and they did not let me into it again . |
| 27 | We did not let him go upstairs , but one day Tabby found him on my bed . |
| 28 | Scott asked Oates to look after the ponies , but he did not let Oates buy them . |
| 29 | We did not let them put us down easily . |
| 30 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |