Example sentences of "[conj] fell [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 2 | She punched Rossmayne in the eye and then on the chest , tugging at his cravat until he lost his balance and fell on top of her . |
| 3 | She lost her balance and fell on top of him , giggling . |
| 4 | She twined her arms so tightly round his neck that he almost choked , pulling him down so that he overbalanced and fell on top of her . |
| 5 | The great horse Koulash galloped forward to join the Tsar 's horses , and fell into step with them . |
| 6 | May I walk along with you ? ’ asked Mrs Dare , and fell into step beside her . |
| 7 | Miguel smiled and greeted those nearest to him , and fell into step beside Lopez , bending to speak a few words quietly to him and his wife . |
| 8 | She visited Durham to see a friend and fell in love with the city and began to help with girls ' clubs in Durham and Sunderland . |
| 9 | Their daughter recalls that the family drove up from Waterford to see Stackallan , looked over the wall and fell in love with it . |
| 10 | However , when they arrived in a town called Morganza , Louisiana , looking for locations , they came across a little café with a sign outside which read ‘ Homemade pies and Coca-Cola ’ , Dennis spotted the place and fell in love with it . |
| 11 | In fact when older I was a snack bar attendant on the Duchess of Hamilton and fell in love with Harry , the student purser , as he with me . |
| 12 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 13 | It was universally accepted that no man married merely for love , and many men and women no doubt made the best of the circumstances , and fell in love with their partners . |
| 14 | There is a legend that Maximilian , later Emperor of Mexico , visited the Princess during her stay in Madeira and fell in love with her . |
| 15 | Maria was released from the convent and fell in love with a dashing Portuguese officer . |
| 16 | He changed his name to John Jones and fell in love with a seventeen-year-old village girl called Sarah Hoggins . |
| 17 | She chose the multicolour puffball creation for her London wedding to computer programmer Danny Daggenhurst who she met and fell in love with a year ago . |
| 18 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 19 | You see , Father was actually born in Alberta — his parents came here from Wales — but when he was a young man he went back to visit , and fell in love with my mother and with Wales as well , and stayed there . ’ |
| 20 | But to his dismay , she left him and fell in love with Peter . |
| 21 | Luckily , the moment she met this cute little owl she came under her spell and fell in love with her , too . |
| 22 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 23 | In 1953 Antenor 's eighteen-year-old daughter , Maria Isabel , met and fell in love with James Goldsmith ( then the son of a hotel manager with little more than a taste for gambling and various romantic exploits to recommend him ) , and informed her father that she wished to marry him . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , we came here on honeymoon , and fell in love with Barbados and Crystal Springs . |
| 25 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 26 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 27 | His women fans still remember he had an affair with screen goddess Brigitte Bardot before he met and fell in love with Olympic skier Francine Bound . |
| 28 | I just got off the plane here and fell in love with the place , so I stayed . |
| 29 | ‘ We visited the site and fell in love with it , ’ said Richard . |
| 30 | On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 . |