Example sentences of "who have be [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | One element has caused a great deal of discussion — the two days allowed for an applicant who has been turned down to notify the adjudicator of his wish to appeal and to present the kernel of his or her case . |
| 2 | It will be much easier to reactivate the application of an unsuccessful candidate who has been let down gently . |
| 3 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 4 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 5 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 6 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 7 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 8 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 9 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I feel very sorry for the people who have been let down . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I feel very sorry for the people who have been let down . |