Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 by jotting them down on this hurtling train
2 You might them down on this .
3 I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep .
4 My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably .
5 ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ?
6 All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea .
7 Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m .
8 He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way .
9 ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block .
10 Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort .
11 She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ?
12 It was an art er if you look Aye , all the time you cleared it down with this , you see ?
13 ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said .
14 ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ .
15 The only thing that lets it down in this area is a slightly off-centre truss rod cover .
16 Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’
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