Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] fall over " in BNC.

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1 Often , too , the paths rose and fell over undulating ground and writhed among the trees with little reason as though they followed the casual waywardness of game tracks .
2 Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford .
3 Squinting her eyes , because the contrast from bright day to the deep shadow in the barn made it difficult to see where she was going , and wary of stumbling and falling over , she grabbed at the doorframe , and shot out her foot to trip him up .
4 She shook her head ( the long mane of fair hair was tied up , so it did not swish and fall over her shoulders ) .
5 When Dot began to stumble and fall over with tiredness , Gloria gathered her up and carried her too .
6 In Example 84 the melody essentially rises and falls over an octave , but by introducing upward and downward leaps of thirds and sixths the scale pattern is completely broken up :
7 She began to run and fell over .
8 Wetherall then stumbled and fell over on the appalling pitch in the centre of the 6 yard box ( as he was correctly keeping his eye on the incoming ball ) .
9 He tried to crawl up her and she screamed and fell over .
10 And you went and fell over and almost broke his leg on his bike
11 She tugged on her jeans over damp legs , cursing and falling over on to the bed , struggling with the clinging fabric until she had them hitched finally over her hips .
12 The Rangers defender slipped and fell over as he went to make a routine interception and Atkinson advanced forward to place the ball through Roberts ' legs into the net .
13 There was now loud music in the lounge , with two couples trying to dance and falling over with giggles from the perpetual motion of the dance-floor .
14 Killion saw the SE5a topple and fall over , but he was too busy fighting off the circling scouts to see if Dangerfield crashed .
15 No-one can predict with any degree of certainty how interest rates will rise and fall over a 5 year period .
16 This was the sound of Thérèse tripping and falling over .
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