Example sentences of "fall [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion was that " the School has fallen off lamentably in the higher branches of education " . |
| 2 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 3 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 4 | I fell over backwards in the slimy mud . |
| 5 | The typical emigrant , huddled together with his like in the strange new environment which received him coldly enough — the militant xenophobia of the ‘ Know-Nothings ’ was a native American response to the influx of starving Irish in the 1850s — fell back naturally on the only human setting that was familiar and could provide help , the company of his countrymen . |