Example sentences of "and [adv] fell [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 2 | They became friendly and eventually fell in love . |
| 3 | I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place . |
| 4 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 5 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 6 | In fact , the average household size remained between four and five throughout this period and only fell to three during the twentieth century ( Laslett , 1972b ; Wall , 1972 ) . |
| 7 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 8 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 9 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 10 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 11 | I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck . |
| 12 | Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent . |
| 13 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 14 | The books were eagerly borrowed , well used and finally fell to pieces , as was the case with J. F. Campbell 's " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " , in the Port Ellen library . |
| 15 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 16 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 17 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 18 | So I did , and I managed to rise a little way , but my wing hurt and the sea wind tugged at it and below me there suddenly flew some hooded crows and I was afraid and panicked , and nearly fell from the sky . |
| 19 | Notes from this meeting were kept by Colonel Hossbach and later fell into Allied hands . |
| 20 | The Court avoided this doctrine by finding that the agreement had been implemented within the EC , and hence fell within the jurisdiction of EC law . |
| 21 | As part of ‘ the media ’ I went back-stage , met Miss Shields , and immediately fell under the spell of her personality and gracious charm . |
| 22 | ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach . |
| 23 | She sat on the rim of the bath and then fell onto the floor . |
| 24 | Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair . |
| 25 | At primary level , the drop-out rate rose to 30 per cent in the cohort which finished seven years of school in 1987 and then fell to 16.4 per cent for those finishing in 1989 . |
| 26 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 27 | Glastonbury gave him a vague smile of great sweetness and then fell upon the vast mound of ham and eggs . |
| 28 | PGE 2 rose after radiotherapy from 0.6 ng.ml - 1 ( 0.60 to 2.4 ) to 1.58 ng.ml - 1 ( median 0.60 to 9.6 ) with a median rise of 0.44 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.038 ) and then fell by -0.48 ng.ml - 1 ( median , range +0.92 to -1.56 , p=0.173 ) ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 29 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 30 | She tried to follow and almost fell down the stairs , gritting her teeth to prevent herself passing out . |