Example sentences of "[prep] fall into the " in BNC.

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1 Gemma was completely covered in grain after falling into the pit at Church Farm in Astwick , Beds .
2 But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me .
3 Stirling naturally stressed , as he had all along , that the SAS must remain outside any airborne brigade , otherwise they ran the risk of falling into the operational vacuum which lay between the small specialist raid and the larger tactical operation .
4 Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them .
5 Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha !
6 In Bangladesh , Oral Rehydration Therapy was in danger of falling into the trap of being inappropriate for the people that it was intended to help .
7 I think it 's straight from Hollywood really ; but instead of falling into the arms of Barbara Stanwyck , it would be Tyrone Power .
8 Having said that , I think we should be wary of falling into the trap of dictating to Morrissey what he should write about , or in what tone .
9 The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser .
10 However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view .
11 A wife who forgives and forgets ( or , better still , remembers ) should beware of falling into the self-destructive doormat trap .
12 In tailoring user behaviour to fit the system , there is the danger of falling into the same trap as the conventional catalogue , where the tool tailors the task .
13 Was she on the verge of falling into the same trap again ?
14 Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement .
15 He dropped the stone and it rolled a little before falling into the water with a soft plop .
16 The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream .
17 He only managed to save himself from falling into the sea by putting one foot on either side of the doorway .
18 And that 's my reason for going public now , to advise , WARN OFF , discourage other runners from falling into the same trap as me .
19 At that time , most concern was being shown towards preventing farm animals from falling into the hole in the ground .
20 Here the vineyards are incredibly steep , and heath tree hedges protect the crops from the wind as well , it is said , as the farmers from falling into the sea below .
21 In addition , the move may be seen as partly defensive — in order to prevent Jaguar from falling into the hands of one of Ford 's competitors .
22 Finally , as if all this was n't enough , the effects of being covered with this diseased , filthy mucus are identical to those from falling into the Miasmic Marsh ( area 63 ) — although they are not cumulative with those effects .
23 It was made by the furious last sweep of his indestructible sword Durandal , when he struck it against the rock in a vain effort to break it and so stop this epic weapon from falling into the hands of the Saracens :
24 It was difficult to stop my things from falling into the sea , but in the end I got everything on to the shore .
25 Practical PC recently received a heart-rending letter from a reader and while it was already too late to help in her particular case it is worth going over her story to prevent others from falling into the same trap .
26 Has he considered whether the western powers should purchase some of those warheads to prevent them from falling into the hands of non-nuclear powers that have no idea how to maintain or destroy them ?
27 Mr Foulkes is seeking Government safeguards to prevent Rayo from falling into the wrong hands .
28 And with the ending of merger talks with BZW , it is hard to see how Morgan Grenfell can preserve its independence without falling into the hands of an overseas concern .
29 However , he did this without falling into the compulsions , the defence mechanisms , and all the sinfulness and deceitfulness of our own lives .
30 A goofy individual in a Batman cape distracted her attention by falling into the seat to her left , spilling some champagne in the process .
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