Example sentences of "come a cropper [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 2 | I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz ! |
| 3 | Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London . |
| 4 | Oxford again are a side with some scalps under their belts , Broughton Park , Solihull , Bury Hill — but you 've sometimes erm come a cropper against smaller sides have n't you ? |
| 5 | Always , always , she came a cropper over people . |
| 6 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |
| 7 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 8 | South Shields and Redcar drew 1–1 , while in the Premier League , Norton came a cropper at Ramgarhians , losing 4–2 to goals from F Mathuru , Pefull and H Mathuru ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | TV astronomer Patrick Moore saw stars when he came a cropper on the cricket field . |
| 10 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |
| 11 | Marks & Spencer also came a cropper in France when it launched its yoghurts over there . |
| 12 | ‘ We nearly came a cropper in Indonesia . |
| 13 | It came a cropper in 1990 and had to be cut up and sold off , with the remains ending up at Amstral Workstation Solutions Ltd , a value added reseller operation . |
| 14 | ‘ We nearly came a cropper in Indonesia . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew about the pit , of course , since Betty Yaxlee came a cropper in it Friday morning . |
| 16 | Is n't there a bridge there where poor old Harold won a victory before coming a cropper at Hastings ? ’ |
| 17 | You have a one in six chance of coming a cropper on the slopes — which is trebled if you are under the influence of tranquillisers . |