Example sentences of "had [verb] them down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 4 | It would have been better on water , Masklin was told later , but Shrub had brought them down on land . |
| 5 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 6 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 7 | Well cos th the government had allowed them so much I suppose and erm that was costing them so much on wages and that , so they had to cut them down on wages . |