1.   When we played them last week, the officials let Erik Williams get away with murder.

2.   Fire officials let the fire burn itself out.

3.   The customs official let us know that he might be prepared to look the other way if an appropriate backhander was slipped into his palm.

4.   And he was concerned that state officials would let growers substitute ice chests for refrigerators.

5.   And U.S. officials have also let it be known that they are nervous about the matter.

6.   As a result, Clinton officials quietly let it be known that she would no longer be under consideration for the job of secretary of education.

7.   But advocates for victims like Roundtree say the officials let Delta off the hook.

8.   For a time immigration officials would not let even Woolsey, who continues to have the highest of security clearances, view the secret data.

9.   Had she been there two minutes earlier, officials would have let her start.

10.   Having let their laboratory become contaminated, Gerdes said, police officials let the problem fester.