Example sentences of "fell to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 2 | There was a great crash , and Daniel and all the sailors fell to the deck . |
| 3 | She laughed hysterically as Piper grunted with pain and fell to the deck . |
| 4 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 5 | Cologne fell to the Americans on 6 March , and next day their advance units reached Remagen on the Rhine . |
| 6 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 7 | The book fell to the floor with a loud bang . |
| 8 | It struck his arm and fell to the floor , spilling out its dark contents . |
| 9 | The 26-year-old Frenchman kept up the punishment and barely 30 seconds after the opening bell Cook fell to the floor and was counted out . |
| 10 | It fell to the floor . |
| 11 | Hutt panicked and struck again and again and again until his defenceless victim fell to the floor . |
| 12 | In an embarrassing exit from the shop the misplaced meat fell to the floor and Rough was wrongly suspected . |
| 13 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 14 | It fell to the floor , and instantly smashed . |
| 15 | Quinn flexed the fingers of his hand ; the stub of pencil fell to the floor . |
| 16 | Ruth took off her dress , hastily moving a stem of grass which fell to the floor , poured water from the ewer into the basin , and set about washing herself . |
| 17 | Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces . |
| 18 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 19 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 20 | Ranetta Sen , 13 , was running along a corridor to her next class when she crashed into a wall and fell to the floor . |
| 21 | He put his hands out and fell to the floor , as if to do fingertip push-ups . |
| 22 | Several drops fell to the floor . |
| 23 | Cigarette ash fell to the floor . |
| 24 | On her way past him , Dermot stuck a foot out and Ellie fell to the floor . |
| 25 | The Makarova fell to the floor . |
| 26 | The hole was expanding , slowly at first , and then suddenly releasing Defries , who fell to the floor of the corridor with a shriek of pain . |
| 27 | In Cold Blood fell to the floor . |
| 28 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 29 | He did not move away from her so she slid from beneath the arc of his body , her napkin fell to the floor . |
| 30 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |