Example sentences of "fallen [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 2 | He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool . |
| 3 | The words ‘ office ’ and ‘ employment ’ are not further defined anywhere in the Act , and , somewhat surprisingly , appear rarely to have fallen for consideration by this court . |
| 4 | A report on Sept. 20 announced the formation of a right-wing Coalition for the Republic ( KdR ) led by former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski , former Defence Ministers Jan Parys and Romuald Szeremietiew , and former Interior Minister Antoni Macierewicz , members of the previous government which had fallen amid scandal over the exposure of alleged communist collaborators [ see p. 38972 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ Along with the pay of other Civil Servants ’ , he says , ‘ mine has fallen behind inflation over the last few years . |
| 6 | In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty , but had actually made Franco back down . |
| 7 | Fowler , who had fallen into bed at four in the morning , agreed ; if this morning 's papers were any guide , the Party conference had given the appearance of a nightclub crossed with a football riot . |
| 8 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 9 | It 's now hoped that China having fallen into line with the other four , will end its support for the notorious Khmer Rouge guerrilla army . |
| 10 | By the end of November the Resistance had been domesticated , the leadership of the Communist Party ( PCF ) had fallen into line behind the government , and de Gaulle was in uncontested control of liberated territory . |
| 11 | Many things had fallen into place as a result of his father 's explanation : drawings on lavatory walls , the shape of girl babies , the strange scufflings in Jimmy Thompson 's rabbit hutch when they put the black buck Jumbo in with Snow White … |
| 12 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 13 | Driving back from seeing Ray Darby , Wickham was stern with himself for having twice in one day fallen into reminiscence about Vanessa . |
| 14 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |
| 15 | His argument was based on personal opinion , feelings and intuition though it does have a loose connection to Carl Gustav Jung 's theory of racial memory , which has fallen into disuse in modern times . |
| 16 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 17 | She had already fallen into sin by meeting Andrew in remote places whenever she could . |
| 18 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 19 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 20 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 21 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 22 | All three have international sponsors , and Kapuscinski is to find out that the South Africans have invaded in the south of the country , having fallen in love with Savimbi . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've fallen in love with someone . ’ |
| 24 | The record buyer who has fallen in love with the band , and goes to see them play , is often disappointed by a lacklustre show . |
| 25 | And instead she had fallen in love with her own tumour . |
| 26 | She had fallen in love with it so slowly and gently and sweetly that she had never noticed it had happened . |
| 27 | I 've also fallen in love with the stereo . |
| 28 | She had met and fallen in love with Peter Shand Kydd , a wallpaper millionaire , seen a chance of happiness , and taken it . |
| 29 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 30 | He had fallen in love with her when watching her play Shakespearian death scenes as Ophelia , Juliet and Desdemona ; but after her retirement from the stage she took to drink , became estranged from her husband and died in 1854 . |