Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] fall [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company said that the number of people eating in its Chef & Brewer and Berni restaurants had fallen by about 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The company said that the number of people eating in its Chef & Brewer and Berni restaurants had fallen by about 10 per cent . |
| 3 | It needed a lot of repair as two largish areas had fallen off . |
| 4 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 5 | Almost all his spines had fallen out and to top that he 's albino . |
| 6 | Yet within Whitehall there was a marked reluctance to accept the implications behind such evidence ; officials tended to fall back on the convenient explanation that the ‘ problem evacuees ’ revealed in September 1939 were a product of poor-quality home life among some sections of the working class rather than highly exaggerated cultural differences or poverty . |
| 7 | Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back . |
| 8 | Except we 've got , we 've got , fish net nylon stuff over the bottom because otherwise things kept falling through . |
| 9 | The three androids had fallen over , too , but they were still functioning , and were beginning to aim their blasters . |
| 10 | One of the glasses had fallen on to its side and a red stain had spread from it on to the tablecloth . |
| 11 | and your instrument panel started showing that the wheels had fallen off and one wheel was on fire first thing we had to think was are the reading correct ! |
| 12 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
| 13 | Loose props tended to fall out with a movement of the window , so I devised a fixed prop using a crab clamp and a small batten . |
| 14 | Having reached a price of $ 36 a barrel at the beginning of 1981 , oil prices began to fall in early 1982 and in April 1986 reached a low point of $ 10 a barrel . |
| 15 | By 1966 the population of the Highlands and Islands had fallen by about 30% from the 1851 maximum to only about 300,000 . |
| 16 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 17 | Average prices had fallen by about 2% and , despite cost-cutting , were continuing at these levels in April . |
| 18 | Then it turned out there was a glut of oil ; within a week , petrol prices had fallen back to pre-August levels . |
| 19 | But also people had put nails in the veneer and bits had fallen off and |
| 20 | Gathering up their equipment they marched off again , only to find that two Italian sentries had fallen in behind them . |
| 21 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 22 | These first Mark IIs to reach Malta were a most welcome reinforcement , arriving at a time when Axis operations had fallen off , pending the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece . |
| 23 | Earlier in the day Jaguar shares had fallen back to close 46p down at 685p as speculators cashed in their stock for large profits . |
| 24 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 25 | The intellectual drive which had propelled the Section 's plans for demand management up to senior politicians had fallen off , and full employment policy was coming to consist more of vague intentions than of concrete measures to assure the fulfilment of the promise already made to the public . |
| 26 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |