Example sentences of "fell [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I fell for Darren , my second son . |
| 2 | Diana nearly fell for con |
| 3 | Wonder accelerated to amazement when Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall turned up , saw the plays , and fell for Burton . |
| 4 | Oh , I confess to feeling a pang when I first saw David again — I would n't be human if I had n't — but , as I said before , it was over between us a very long time ago , probably even before I fell for Paul if the truth be known . ’ |
| 5 | She always fell for things like that ; she was easy to manage . |
| 6 | It was quite another to see his ‘ independence ’ from Moscow discounted by the gullible Western leaders , especially when they fell for Gorbachev 's ‘ revisionist , charms . |
| 7 | DESPITE myself , I fell for HOUSESITTER ( Cert P.G. ; General ) . |
| 8 | The star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse fell for author Peter Mayle 's dream soon after arriving in Provence early this year to begin work on the BBC adaptation of the bestselling book . |
| 9 | And that includes the many British ex-pats and handful of Americans who also fell for Mayle 's picture of the French way of life . |
| 10 | Maman always said she fell for Daddy when she saw how precise and gentle he was with his fingers while filling his pipe . |
| 11 | Fr Butler was due to return to Ireland after two years as a priest , but he fell for Rachel , a 17-year-old church organist . |
| 12 | Rain fell for days and nights . |
| 13 | However , in 1839 , she fell for Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , who was just three months older than Elizabeth , and they were married in February 1840 . |
| 14 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 15 | But her lips were moving fast and her voice rose and fell between breaths . |
| 16 | For the 1840's-50's this figure usually fell between £1,000 and £2,000 per month . |
| 17 | Muslin fell between arches which overlooked a garden of palms and fountains and citrus trees . |
| 18 | The effect of this lenience was that the yield of 4s. in the pound on landed incomes and 2s. 8d. on goods actually fell during Elizabeth 's reign — a period of rising prices and of growing prosperity for the propertied classes — from about £140,000 at the beginning of the reign to about £85,000 at the end . |
| 19 | The effect of the Janata Dal split , and the earlier withdrawal of support by the BJP , had a major impact on a number of state governments , although no Chief Ministers actually fell during November as a result of the events at the centre . |
| 20 | Flight engineer Harry Simister followed wireless operator , bomb aimer and navigator through the hatch , feeling a terrific pull on his legs as he fell through space , and realised his harness was not properly adjusted . |
| 21 | She walked further up the hill to where the golden light still came unhindered , following from one patch of sunlight to another as they fell through gaps in the houses , until she was in a little cul-de-sac quite open to it , ending at a railway . |
| 22 | He placed his own mantle on Elisha 's shoulders , who said his farewell to his parents , and became Elijah 's companion and understudy , following him faithfully on a journey of farewells , and finally inheriting the mantle which fell off Elijah 's shoulders as he was actually or mystically carried off in ‘ ’ a whirlwind into heaven ’ . |
| 23 | Of those without repeat biopsy , four had associated dermatitis herpetiformis and 11 considerably raised concentrations of antigliadin antibody , which fell after gluten withdrawal , thus supporting the diagnosis of coeliac disease . |
| 24 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 25 | And if expectations of the general level of prices fell below P there could be a fall in prices and a rise in output . |
| 26 | Although the University as a whole was 0.2% above GB average , it fell below average in 3 out of the 5 categories and received no additional numbers in Humanities , Social Sciences or Engineering . |
| 27 | Fertility fell below replacement level ( TFR 2.1 ) in 1972 ; a new trough was reached in 1977 ( TFR 1.7 ) , a return to the position of fifty years earlier . |
| 28 | Whereas industrial demand fell below expectations , demand in the tourism and leisure sectors has exceeded them . |
| 29 | The Algerian Minister for Mines and Industry Sadek Boussena , OPEC 's president , said after the meeting that quotas would be reconsidered in 1991 if prices fell below OPEC 's current US$21 a barrel reference price . |
| 30 | Payments soon fell below subsistence level . |