Example sentences of "[vb past] let [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 2 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 3 | When they started to let us out of the house we were able to rummage amongst the appalling pile of rubbish strewn around the University campus nearby . |
| 4 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 5 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 6 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |
| 7 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 8 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 9 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 10 | I was ashamed of what I had let myself in for with Jean-Claude . |
| 11 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 12 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 13 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 14 | The landlord refused to let him back in . ’ |
| 15 | But she refused to let him off with insinuations . |