Example sentences of "see the [noun sg] fall " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think by the demonstration this morning that people are not prepared to see the building fall down and I think that , erm if necessary , people will do everything within their power to prevent the erm the contractors moving in . |
| 2 | If Mr Lawson was , he might be happy to see the pound fall to ease the burden on companies . |
| 3 | ‘ A few more trade figures like that and we will see the market fall further . ’ |
| 4 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 5 | If the market took the view that the Government 's determination to control public spending was weakening , then we would see the pound fall and inflation increase . |
| 6 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 7 | Desperately Moore threw himself to one side , and saw the rope fall harmlessly to the floor . |
| 8 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 9 | Adam felt the blackness race through him as he saw the storm-trooper fall . |
| 10 | Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since . |
| 11 | Blagg tried for a head shot and missed , felt a punch in the chest that made his knees fold , but he fired again and saw the pistol fall loose . |