Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] fall [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That autumn the barn at Yelton began to fall down . |
| 2 | They were friendly , but with a suburban reserve ; they were mad on sport and thought everybody knew all about it ; and they were gaining a glittering net-curtain prosperity against a background of ruined buildings that in England had been bombed in the war ( and in Ireland had fallen down ) . |
| 3 | Since the imperial poet Da Ponte had fallen out of favour at the Viennese court , and had left in disgrace , his temporary successor Caterino Mazzolà was asked to freshen up the old warhorse for a new setting , while Guardasoni rushed to Italy to find suitable singers . |
| 4 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 5 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 6 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 7 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
| 8 | True , there were a few pockets of stubborn resistance , where the Reiksguard refused to fall back in the face of certain defeat or where the thunder of Imperial arquebuses had shattered the Bretonnian infantry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 12 | It was true that Dimity appeared to fall in readily with any of Ella 's demands , but if it came to a matter of principle , then Dimity was unshaken . |
| 13 | On the top side of the platform , Daak had fallen over . |
| 14 | It appeared that the roof Billy had fallen off was in one Coroner 's jurisdiction , but where he 'd landed was in another 's . |
| 15 | After all , if Dysart had fallen out with Clare , he was not likely to have broadcast the fact after her death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since Yussuf had fallen out with his wife , however , the sounds from the other end of the corridor had become more subdued . |
| 18 | Irrigation and agricultural policies — especially for the Soviet cotton industry — meant that the water level in the Aral Sea had fallen by over 14 metres over the last 30 years . |
| 19 | The only trouble was NT kept falling over . |
| 20 | After Vorontseff had fallen off twice he was hoisted up by a grinning trooper and thrown face down in front of the saddle . |