Example sentences of "[indef pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 2 | Though he occasionally complained that his agent pushed too much work in his direction , he appears to have turned nothing down , accepting even very slight commissions from the Penrose Annual or the Complete Imbiber . |
| 3 | ‘ There is nothing up my sleeves but my arms , there is nothing down my trousers but a ferret . ’ |
| 4 | heading down that way , is there nothing down there ? |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing down there — ’ |
| 6 | Now they could do you a boatload right off the shelf , nothing down and nothing to pay if you shoot 'em in the right direction . ’ |
| 7 | Nothing down there . |
| 8 | Nothing down here we want cat food , lard and Ryvita Ryvita will be down the bottom here , I suppose and lard is right she wants brown Ryvita quickly . |
| 9 | Nothing down here ? |
| 10 | well have a look then , I do n't know where it is there 's nothing down here |
| 11 | There 's nothing down there he could have done . |
| 12 | There 's nothing down there . |
| 13 | There 's nothing down there ! |
| 14 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say to that , I thought they kept going ; two nothing down you know and I 've played in games where your playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you . |
| 15 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say that , I thought they kept going at two nothing down you know sides , and I 've played in games where you 're playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you ? |
| 16 | Well when it went three nothing I thought here we go , I 've got all my friends and family , you know , come and watch , you tell them what a good side they are , and last few games they looked a good side — three nothing down in fifteen minutes . |
| 17 | Eventually he quietened everyone down . |
| 18 | Surely everyone learnt lessons when bands like The Clash let everyone down . |
| 19 | Our boys made intense efforts to back them up with air support , but were much hampered by consistently bad weather , and it soon became obvious that long supply lines and determined German resistance were combining to bog everyone down . |
| 20 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 21 | Lousy lanes , biased officials , the worst flights , everyone down on him . |
| 22 | I have let everyone down . |
| 23 | ‘ If the ankle had gone in the Blackburn game I would have been letting everyone down . |
| 24 | Yet in the tragedies these villains are never satisfied : Macbeth goes on killing like some automaton , Iago goes on destroying until he has brought everyone down . |
| 25 | With the best will in the world , and the best board in the world , and the best strategic direction in the world , nothing will happen unless everyone down the line understands what they are trying to achieve and gives of their best to achieve it . |
| 26 | Labour tries to level everyone down instead of levelling up . |
| 27 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |
| 28 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 29 | Because I could n't let everyone down . |
| 30 | I felt I 'd let everyone down ) |