Example sentences of "fall over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one can predict with any degree of certainty how interest rates will rise and fall over a 5 year period . |
| 2 | ‘ They might fall over a cliff together , too . ’ |
| 3 | She only hoped there was a bed , and that she would n't fall over a low pallet . |
| 4 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 5 | On the following day , a sprinkling of ash fell over a wide area , and a great column of steam was seen rising above Krakatoa , leaving no doubt that a major eruption was under way . |
| 6 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 7 | He started to walk backwards as together they advanced until he fell over a precipice , the hound at his throat . |
| 8 | When it comes to riding a bike , a child does n't say , ‘ Well , I fell over a lot when I was learning to walk , so maybe I wo n't bother with a bike . ’ |
| 9 | Welsh outside half Stephens was clattered into touch by wing Kevin O'Sullivan and then fell over a concrete wall onto the terraces and will miss the December 28 game . |
| 10 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 11 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 12 | Dilwyn Bowles 's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair . |
| 13 | Jezrael almost fell over a gee-node that had n't been here when her memories had taped the place . |
| 14 | On the way down I fell over a man hiding in a dark corner , who ran away immediately . |
| 15 | " She fell over a cliff . " |
| 16 | He scrabbled up the ramp and fell over a body . |
| 17 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 18 | The waterfall itself was spectacular , a 50 ft torrent falling over a sheer rockface , with moss-covered precipices rising on either side . |
| 19 | ESTHER Rantzen 's That 's Life show was rapped by TV watchdogs yesterday over a sketch showing a ‘ blind ’ man falling over a wall . |
| 20 | Down here there is a metre of snow on the windward side of the lavvu , and I fall over a small rucsac that had disappeared . |
| 21 | People with HC may be clumsy , or fall over a lot , or get very fidgety . |
| 22 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 23 | Incidentally I think we should get less free kicks against us now , and both O'Leary ans Fairclough are seen as ‘ fair ’ players , so should get SOME sympathy when the likes of Quinn and ‘ timber ‘ Hughes fall over a lot . |