Example sentences of "[verb] [art] cropper " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 2 | Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London . |
| 3 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 4 | I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz ! |
| 5 | The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper . |
| 6 | YORK has come top in a survey to find the most cycle-friendly place in the country but the rest of the region has come a cropper . |
| 7 | Oxford again are a side with some scalps under their belts , Broughton Park , Solihull , Bury Hill — but you 've sometimes erm come a cropper against smaller sides have n't you ? |
| 8 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 9 | Always , always , she came a cropper over people . |
| 10 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 11 | Many of the once-vaunted French ‘ peri-informatique ’ companies ( those making small computers and associated equipment ) also came a cropper . |
| 12 | Marks & Spencer also came a cropper in France when it launched its yoghurts over there . |
| 13 | ‘ We nearly came a cropper in Indonesia . |
| 14 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 15 | The first things I did came a cropper . |
| 16 | ‘ We nearly came a cropper in Indonesia . |
| 17 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |
| 18 | She came a cropper , no doubt about that , but she was in a hurry , naturally . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew about the pit , of course , since Betty Yaxlee came a cropper in it Friday morning . |
| 20 | TV astronomer Patrick Moore saw stars when he came a cropper on the cricket field . |
| 21 | All in case his own knight came a cropper and he had to change horses in mid stream . |
| 22 | Five riders came a cropper and the meeting was abandoned . |
| 23 | Women 's National champion , Melissa Watson , who races with the Swindon team came a cropper . |
| 24 | right now though Swindon are more concerned about their league form … in yesterday 's live Central Match they came a cropper … |
| 25 | South Shields and Redcar drew 1–1 , while in the Premier League , Norton came a cropper at Ramgarhians , losing 4–2 to goals from F Mathuru , Pefull and H Mathuru ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 27 | Is n't there a bridge there where poor old Harold won a victory before coming a cropper at Hastings ? ’ |
| 28 | You have a one in six chance of coming a cropper on the slopes — which is trebled if you are under the influence of tranquillisers . |
| 29 | The dangerous thing is that cliffs fall away to the north without warning , and someone getting lost in thick mist could easily come a cropper . |
| 30 | And its ambitions spread much wider still — into realms where it could come a cropper |