Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] let [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest .
2 Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end .
3 Heroes always let you down .
4 And it helped that Grant never let us down financially , and phoned home every day .
5 Overall the Fuller could have been a very decent unit but the quality of finish badly lets it down .
6 The guards at the palace 's main gate swiftly let them through but , as they debouched out of the tree-lined path front of the palace , a gruesome sight awaited them .
7 Her voice almost let her down but she persevered .
8 I remained in prison another two years until the government graciously let me out under the amnesty in May 1983 .
9 But Harley never lets it out of his sight .
10 His editorial judgment rarely let him down .
11 Her mother also let her down badly .
12 The echolocation system of dolphins occasionally lets them down , and they become stranded on beaches .
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