Example sentences of "they let [pron] " in BNC.

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1 what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night .
2 If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on .
3 But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit .
4 I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them .
5 But it 's important , for what we 're going to be thinking of this morning to re , keep that little phrase in mind that Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side , there was purpose in going into that boat .
6 ‘ The players are disappointed and realise they let everybody down including themselves .
7 ‘ Some people have to get wildly angry before they let themselves feel anything . ’
8 In their overheated frustration this Monday evening at Old Trafford they let themselves down badly through ignorance of the laws of cricket .
9 But they let themselves be diverted to the Nile Delta and there holed up the Persians in the ‘ White Castle ’ .
10 Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go .
11 ‘ It 's not normal , ’ was all he could say when they let him out .
12 Suddenly , they let him down and one said , ‘ This guy does n't know what we are talking about or he would not ask , ‘ Who is he ? ’ '
13 Richard Gough is unmatched by any current English central defender and Spurs must still be cursing the day they let him go .
14 As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know .
15 I was surprised they let him do that .
16 G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’
17 And then at the end … the little lad was there , they let him , I 'd not have allowed … ’
18 He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river .
19 Because they let him pick them up .
20 However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat .
21 When they were satisfied that there was no more to be got they let him go .
22 They let him have his degree , of course , out of pure charity .
23 Knight bannerets of the king 's household stopped them but Cranston muttered a few words and they let him by .
24 They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts .
25 He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea .
26 They were so relieved at the college that they let him keep his job . ’
27 They let him out ?
28 But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion .
29 Oh , but there was a thing on the on the radio the other day talking about little boys , and they let him out he was now got a karate class for young boys in the South of England somewhere .
30 They let him come and he wo n't get any biscuits .
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