Example sentences of "and [vb past] fall [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | In the beginning we had lots of laughs and kept falling off because of the balance . |
2 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ! |
5 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |