Example sentences of "fell from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A 75-year-old stroke patient died there last December when he fell from a trolley outside the casualty unit .
2 The number of cars produced fell from a peak of 800 in 1990 to 650 this year , although production will increase considerably if legislation to allow the company to produce fully-built cars is passed later this year .
3 The rural population , as defined in the census , fell from a peak of 9.1 million in 1861 to a low of 7.3 million just before the Second World War .
4 In Buckinghamshire the number of lace workers fell from a peak of 10,487 in 1851 to only 789 in 1901 ; in Bedfordshire the number declined less spectacularly from 5,734 to 1,144 during the same period .
5 The Bank 's holdings of commercial bills — the " bill mountain " — fell from a peak level of £14.3 billion in February 1985 to £2.4 billion at the end of June 1989 .
6 House moves fell from a peak of 2.3m in 1989 to only 1m last year , but a recovery to 1.3m has been predicted for the current year .
7 The tall and helpful Saint Agostino stood surrounded by disasters , someone was attacked by a wolf , a child fell from a window , a horse fell into a ravine .
8 ‘ I gathered he fell from a window whilst drunk . ’
9 He fell from a window and broke his neck , out there in the courtyard .
10 Henry Skelton fell from a window days after writing his own obituary .
11 And in another incident Twenty one year old Henry Skelton fell from a window at New College after a night of drink and drugs .
12 Oxford student , Henry Skelton fell from a window at New College after taking LSD supplied by Griffiths .
13 From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter .
14 This was confirmed by their 20 minute C urea breath test values ( percentage of administered C urea excreted as C-CO 2 per mmol expired CO 2 ×kg body weight×100 ) which fell from a range of 60- 550 before treatment to 2–8 afterwards .
15 For some of us , the homecoming of the bare-faced crows marks , more than anything else , the progress of the year : more than the sparrow 's egg that fell from a nest in the guttering of a barn 's roof ; or , for that matter , the arrival of the hive bees to jostle around the gold gorse flowers ; more than the toad crawling to the pond in which he was spawned ; or the squeak of a hungry pipistrelle bat venturing out of hibernation on a warm , wet evening .
16 Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections .
17 ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull .
18 Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face .
19 Outside , another blossom fell from a tree , to join the others on the pavement .
20 Teachers at Stowe School began an investigation after a sixteen year old boy was injured when he fell from a bunk bed .
21 That was a case of an accident when , by reason of the negligence of the tramway company 's motor man , the infant 's mother fell from a tram to the street and was injured .
22 A WOMAN aged 22 who fell from a bridge in the dark and fractured her skull is still unconscious and is also thought to have a fractured spine .
23 One Thames engineer asphyxiated , along with a Davy ATC worker who tried to rescue him ; one contractor killed when he fell from a train that runs between the face and the construction shaft ; a young Glaswegian electrocuted beneath Park Lane .
24 A twenty-five year old man suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a train which was moving at sixty five miles an hour .
25 Systems analyst Martin , 22 , of Cumberland Street , fell from a rock at Brimham Rocks , near Pateley Bridge , on the last day of his honeymoon .
26 In another separate accident near Modesto in the same American state , 33 year old Stephen Murray fell from a raft .
27 Stephen Murray died after getting trapped under rocks when he fell from a raft going through rapids .
28 Stephen Murray died after getting trapped under rocks , when he fell from a raft going through rapids .
29 A man fell from a clifftop at Brighton early yesterday and landed only feet in front of a jogger on a path .
30 A police rider fell from a horse stunned by a half-brick .
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