Example sentences of "[vb past] her down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 2 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 3 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 4 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 5 | He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land . |
| 6 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |