Example sentences of "[verb] let down " in BNC.
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| 1 | They concede that municipal monopoly of schooling has let down generations but they come back with ideas that seem to me to be sensible and subtle but also politically popular . |
| 2 | Yet these attitudes conflict with their own observations of life in a town which the market has let down . |
| 3 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 4 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 5 | A bitter debate in the Executive of the National Union on 8 February 1917 resulted in the setting up of a special sub-committee to consider the Bill ; a suggestion that MPs should be ineligible for the sub-committee because they had let down the party so badly in the Speaker 's Conference was only narrowly lost . |
| 6 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 7 | But , in the story , Rapunzel had let down her hair as a living rope to draw her beloved to her . |
| 8 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 9 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 10 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 11 | All the people I 've let down . |
| 12 | They have let down the public and also let down colleagues who , in the local media and in some national programmes such as ’ Newsnight ’ , have succeeded in giving a more accurate and balanced picture of events . |