Example sentences of "fell [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could just see by the light of the wrought-iron lamps that he was wearing a shirt with frilled sleeves , and that his hair fell about his face . |
| 2 | The fruit of these people 's labour ( ‘ Their name is El Azain , ’ he said , and his voracious lips seemed to suck on my lobes , his sharp tongue to probe my synapses ) fell about my face . |
| 3 | How does he really fell about your friends ? |
| 4 | ‘ I wed Kim — and them I married her mum ’ Colin and Kim on their wedding day ( left ) — before he fell for her mother |
| 5 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 6 | Paying off the mortgage created difficulties when the income from the farm declined during the bad times , which was more often than not , when prices fell for our sheep , cattle and produce . |
| 7 | As he bathed , a sycamore leaf fell between his shoulder blades so that , like Achilles , his perfection was flawed and it was there that the treacherous Lord Hagen thrust his spear . |
| 8 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 9 | This was done by a series of pas marchés each of which softly rose and fell through her feet from toe to heel . |
| 10 | A few weeks later , unbidden , a very good quality leather strap fell through my letter box — with compliments . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who fell through your window . ’ |
| 12 | Then , very slowly and deliberately , Doyle tore the two halves of the photograph across and across , into a shower of tiny pieces that fell through his fingers on to the floor . |
| 13 | He grasped her long hair , so that strands of silk fell through his fingers , and tugged her head back gently , kissing her on her neck , muttering things that she could barely hear , far less understand . |
| 14 | Her glasses fell off her head and hit the metal base of the table and smashed in two . |
| 15 | So you told them you fell off your bike ? |
| 16 | Oh it was so funny at work today , Greg fell off his chair . |
| 17 | As he listened to the words he nearly fell off his chair with surprise . |
| 18 | Ten year old Dean Goldsmith fell off his bike last week and is now in the intensive care unit of the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 19 | I nearly fell off my bed . |
| 20 | It 's not hard , it 's just that it fell off my stick . |
| 21 | your dismissal date fell after your 64th birthday , in which case the award is reduced on a sliding scale . |
| 22 | He took the mob-cap from her head , impatient with the pins until her hair fell past her shoulders like a black silk curtain . |
| 23 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 24 | Countries whose emissions exceeded their allocations would be obliged to buy ( or perhaps lease ) permits from countries whose output of carbon dioxide fell below their allowance . |
| 25 | If they fell below his standard he was disappointed , but not censorious . |
| 26 | It fell of your stick ? |
| 27 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 28 | She fell against his chest . |
| 29 | The charred remains of many books fell near his home and even as far away as Windsor . |
| 30 | With a splintering noise , it fell beneath his pressure . |