When I didn't say anything for a few moments, the lady shuffled her hands together, looking crestfallen. |
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We leave crestfallen, unsure of whether or not we have just stumbled upon the world's most mysterious recording studio. |
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Her dark eyes held a look so distraught and crestfallen that she didn't even notice the eeriness around her. |
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He was crestfallen when I said I just wanted to borrow the phone, but was kind enough to let me. |
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He seemed crestfallen when I confirmed that, yes, it would take an awful long time to walk. |
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He looked crestfallen, so I got off the bench and chased him around in a game of hide-and-seek. |
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The Irishman was under tremendous pressure to get Carlisle's season off to a good start and must have been crestfallen in defeat. |
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Critics were left to slink away with crestfallen faces, hoping no one would remember their dire predictions. |
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While the announcement of the results brought cheer to some, many others looked crestfallen. |
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He sighed and slowly stood from the couch, crestfallen eyes showing defeat. |
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As the cast took their curtain-calls, I sat crestfallen backstage, erasing my disguise with a make-up wipe. |
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But in Senegal itself, crestfallen fans trudged through quiet streets in the capital after their team's failure to reach the last four. |
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With little aid and no roof over their head, these crestfallen people are facing the worst nightmare of their lives. |
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But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each. |
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On that score, as long as I have him on the line, I feel it's my duty to bust his chops a bit on behalf of crestfallen kids everywhere. |
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When the anchorwoman for the German 4x100 relay drops the baton with a big lead, he is crestfallen. |
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As the two lovers watched their most precious treasure, they couldn't help but grow crestfallen. |
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Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz. |
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The crestfallen Italians may not have appreciated the irony of conceding a goal to the Palermo striker. |
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Sure, he can put on an accent, look suitably crestfallen and let those tear ducts well up like a true champ, but is he really the third greatest actor in the history of film? |
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Programmers do not know how to tackle that problem. There is another reason not to feel too crestfallen even if Deep Blue does beat Mr Kasparov. |
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It would be hard for anyone not to feel crestfallen when their friend requests to managers they want to work for go unaccepted. |
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Most of his supporters in Ohio had all but admitted defeat yesterday morning, too crestfallen to clutch at legal straws and not surprised by his decision to concede. |
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Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done. |
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He asks the audience for permission to go backwards and finds the rebel climbing a tree, crestfallen and upset. |
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The other candidates looked at each other with a crestfallen look while the impressive melody filled the air. |
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A new manager was needed, someone who would build afresh and infuse a crestfallen squad with renewed confidence. |
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It was a case of so much too late though, and as the final whistle rang out the crestfallen Africans threw themselves to the ground. |
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He's more likely to be found wearily crestfallen or grimacing in alarm at the times than to be heard screaming with anger. |
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I was thus a little crestfallen when I turned up at his headquarters to find an anonymous brown office building, just off a suburban freeway, and few trucks in sight. |
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Instead, it will be the look of crestfallen outrage that fell over the face of Ashley Wagner, an American figure skater, after hearing the judges' scores following her short programme in the team competition. |
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Without doubt, no one will be more anxious for this to come to pass than his crestfallen Brazilian players, now hungrier than ever for that still-elusive first title. |
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Father had already died when I arrived and Maria was crestfallen from the night guard and sorrow, but her joy at seeing me again was nevertheless bigger than I had dared to hope. |
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I must say as Minister of Sport, when the Prime Minister told me in August that I'd have to give up Sponsorship and take on the Olympics, I was crestfallen... but struggling on. |
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It would prove scant consolation for the crestfallen Mexicans, but while El Tri return home with their dreams dashed, Argentina can begin plotting revenge against some familiar foes. |
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After spending all that time preparing for the briefing and making what we felt were very good recommendations, we were crestfallen at the prospect of leaving his office without the immediate decision we felt was required. |
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With their dreams shattered, dejected members of the SNP and other parties in the yes camp instead listened to a crestfallen Alex Salmond concede defeat at 6.15am. |
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And his chinless blunder son Edmund was genuinely crestfallen when one of the oikish young visitors cruelly dismissed his cross-country assault course. |
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As Scorchers players, including non-striker and England outcast Michael Carberry, celebrated joyously, Lee fell to his knees beside the stumps, crestfallen. |
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