Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] fall [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 2 | Ken did , however , help Anita — with the ruby in her navel that kept falling out every time she did her belly dance . |
| 3 | First of all I thought he was just some little fledgling that had fallen out of its nest , but I very soon realized there was more to him than that . " |
| 4 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 5 | As Gabriel was watching , the cart stopped at the top of the hill , and the driver climbed down to go back and fetch something that had fallen off . |
| 6 | In the beginning we had lots of laughs and kept falling off because of the balance . |
| 7 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 8 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 9 | He had tried to rise above them , and had fallen back among them , there to be hated once for his attempt , and twice for his failure ! |
| 10 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |
| 11 | Unemployment in the UK peaked at 17 per cent in 1932 but had fallen back to its 1920s level of 8 per cent by 1937 . |