Example sentences of "let me down " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 3 | Now you 've let me down they 'll just say , we told you so , Sam and Foggerty and all . |
| 4 | … ‘ You 've let me down , I never thought a son of mine would do that . ’ |
| 5 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 6 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 7 | Platt has let me down |
| 8 | had let me down I 'd have gone over everyone 's head and rung Matron 's flat . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've let me down . ’ |
| 10 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 11 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's let me down twice today , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's let me down , ’ said Constance . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's supposed to be Miss Kind and Caring , and she 's let me down . ’ |
| 15 | But it 's worth it , because they 've never let me down . |
| 16 | ‘ And you 've never let me down . |
| 17 | ‘ My legs have let me down . ’ |
| 18 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 19 | They 're normally out tonight she 's let me down again . |
| 20 | ‘ I nearly married once , but he let me down . |
| 21 | ‘ He let me down . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 23 | Hitler 's let me down . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Let me down and I 'll tell yer . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Let me down and find out . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But they never let me down , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Why did you cheat me and let me down ? |
| 28 | Would my ‘ John-Willie ’ let me down by not getting up ? |
| 29 | my shoes let me down and rubbed me/gave me blisters |
| 30 | My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest . |