Example sentences of "let [pron] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have let everyone down . |
| 2 | I had let them down and was no longer worthy of their friendship . |
| 3 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 4 | Biddy had never let them down , come without fail all through the bad weather , and now was giving Nails an intensive course on her own horse which — in terms of money — was worth another couple of hundred pounds . |
| 5 | The Christian life should be one of joy and peace , they feel , so either they have failed God or he has let them down — though they feel guilty for thinking so . |
| 6 | They do n't want the experts to come in and advise because it is the experts that have let them down . ’ |
| 7 | People throughout Europe and America began to complain against their new god who seemed to have let them down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Picasso painted the Demoiselles d'Avignon , those of his friends who were allowed to see it seem to have felt that in some way he had let them down . |
| 10 | Much as they admired him and loved him , he seemed to have let them down . |
| 11 | And Freud and a lot of other German speaking people , thought that he had let them down , because he did n't have the political goodness . |
| 12 | KATE was left sitting alone once more as Ace stormed off , but she hardly noticed he 'd gone because all she could think about was how the fuel blend had let them down . |
| 13 | She had let them down , medical science had let them down . |
| 14 | She had let them down , medical science had let them down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 17 | Now you 've let me down they 'll just say , we told you so , Sam and Foggerty and all . |
| 18 | … ‘ You 've let me down , I never thought a son of mine would do that . ’ |
| 19 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 20 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 21 | Platt has let me down |
| 22 | had let me down I 'd have gone over everyone 's head and rung Matron 's flat . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've let me down . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's let me down twice today , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's let me down , ’ said Constance . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's supposed to be Miss Kind and Caring , and she 's let me down . ’ |
| 29 | But it 's worth it , because they 've never let me down . |
| 30 | ‘ And you 've never let me down . |