Example sentences of "it fell to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four minutes later United 's best move of the half involving four players ; eventually the ball laid out to Simpson down the left , the cross came in , it fell to Lee Nogan off Jim Magilton , but from some five yards out , somehow Bolder got his hands to Nogan 's shot and the chance had gone . |
| 2 | Ironically it fell to Cardinal Ottaviani , most conservative of cardinals , to announce the election of the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan to the papacy as Paul VI . |
| 3 | It fell to North , McFarlane and Poindexter , as also to anyone else roped into the policy , to carry out a private crusade with a crippling double imperative . |
| 4 | With Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad fronting for the group in Europe , it fell to Kenaan , as the man on the spot , to supervise the supply end of the business , to keep the Bekaa peaceful and productive , to suppress dissent , discourage private enterprise and mediate disputes . |
| 5 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 6 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 7 | IT FELL to RAF St Mawgan and to Coastal Command to fly the last-ever operational sortie by the Lancaster . |
| 8 | As chairman of the trustees , it fell to Herne to face the parliamentary attack of early 1698 on the fraudulent endorsements of these bills by ( Sir ) Charles Duncombe [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 10 | It fell to Pentagon officials to publicise this crucial information . |
| 11 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 12 | And it fell to bits . |
| 13 | It fell to William , the only son left in London , to prove the will , which he duly did on 22 October at the Principal Probate Registry ; the body was laid to rest at Abney Park Cemetery , Stoke Newington , grave no. 66,417 . |
| 14 | It fell to Alexander to bear the full brunt of Napoleon 's ambition . |
| 15 | In any event , it fell to Professor Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , Malinowski 's contemporary and rival , to redress the balance in the direction of the sociological theorists . |
| 16 | So far there has been no response of this sort ; it fell to Iraq 's minorities to make the attempt instead . |
| 17 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 18 | Labour joy was multiplied when it fell to Keith Joseph , the Trade and Industry Secretary , to make the rescue statement . |
| 19 | It fell to Warrant Officer Dunston to ensure the service was up to an impeccable standard , not an easy task in the boiling heat of the summer of 1989 . |
| 20 | It fell to Laurie and his crew to take Sugar on her ‘ 137th ’ and last operational sortie on April 23 , 1945 , to attack U-Boats at Flensburg . |
| 21 | Yesterday it fell to John Major to announce that the Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate . |
| 22 | The airy and intricate line of Torro , weaving up the slabby wall to the left of Centurion , followed in 1962. it fell to John McLean , Willie Smith and Willie Gordon of the Creagh Dhu , with some aid . |
| 23 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 24 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 25 | It fell to Horne to prepare the resulting North West Highland Memoir ( 1907 ) . |
| 26 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 27 | There was a heated argument between the two men which at length it fell to Branson to settle . |
| 28 | As chairman of the committee , the man saddled with the task ‘ Get my son back for me ’ twenty-four days earlier , it fell to Michael Odell . |
| 29 | In the event it fell to Sigibert , and as a result Leudast lost his office . |
| 30 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |