Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] fell [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins .
2 The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced .
3 Among the first victims of the reform were the larger German-owned estates that now fell within Poland .
4 So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War .
5 They became friendly and eventually fell in love .
6 I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place .
7 Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears .
8 I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck .
9 Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent .
10 At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell :
11 The books were eagerly borrowed , well used and finally fell to pieces , as was the case with J. F. Campbell 's " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " , in the Port Ellen library .
12 I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her .
13 Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair .
14 So I opened my bedroom door and almost fell over Mr Rochester , who was sitting in a chair just outside .
15 He was never an ideological coalitionist and never fell under L.G. 's spell , for all their good personal relations .
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