Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 4 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 5 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 6 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 7 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 8 | She hoped she had n't let him down in any way . |
| 9 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 12 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 13 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 14 | Commercial property values are depressed and only some companies may have adequately written them down in their accounts . |
| 15 | Any competent social scientist could have shot them down in flames . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 17 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 18 | Felix had tracked him down through his old address and left a note . |
| 19 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 20 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 21 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 22 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 23 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 24 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 25 | I 've seen it down over there . |
| 26 | It was It was a great lot down in Leith here , and I 've often seen it down in Leith docks . |
| 27 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 28 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've got them down as T , L , F that one , okay |
| 30 | In fact we have n't got you down for a paper at all in this class yet I do n't think so if you 'd like to do one for us you can see me about it afterwards . |