Example sentences of "have come [art] cropper " in BNC.

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1 YORK has come top in a survey to find the most cycle-friendly place in the country but the rest of the region has come a cropper .
2 The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper .
3 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 !
4 And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper .
5 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 .
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