Example sentences of "let [pers pn] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ? |
| 2 | He could n't let them down like that , his brave little company who had battled their way , despite enormous odds , into a precarious success . |
| 3 | But how would he break the news to Georgina that he 'd let her down after all these years ? |
| 4 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 5 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 6 | Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’ |