Example sentences of "had fallen [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 2 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 3 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 4 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 5 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 6 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 7 | The US dollar , which had peaked at US$1.00=DM1.85 during May and June 1991 from a February trough of 1.44 , had fallen back by the end of November to below 1.6 , as early hopes of a rapid recovery in US consumer spending faded , and as unfavourable indicators in the employment market coincided with news of a disappointing trade balance in September . |
| 8 | When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked . |
| 9 | But Mr Bush 's old agency , the CIA , suddenly produced the trial 's only real , live agent to blow apart a key assertion : that Noriega had fallen out with the cartel after his troops destroyed a state-of-the-art cocaine laboratory in Panama . |
| 10 | He signed the deal in July 1989 — and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market . |
| 11 | The bottom had fallen out of the city 's property market and skyscrapers offered for sale at ridiculously low prices could find no buyers . |
| 12 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 13 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 14 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |