Example sentences of "had fall [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 2 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 3 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 4 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 5 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 6 | And er I had to fall back very often just write , I saw Mr follow the horse in in in that that churning power . |
| 7 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 8 | But erm if people fell sick , you know , anybody fell sick , well you all , you had to fall in and fill their place . |
| 9 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 10 | On the top side of the platform , Daak had fallen over . |
| 11 | The three androids had fallen over , too , but they were still functioning , and were beginning to aim their blasters . |
| 12 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 13 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 14 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 15 | Her wrap had fallen right off . |
| 16 | However , the proportion of men covered by occupational pension schemes had fallen slightly by 1983 to 66 per cent , while the proportion of women in schemes remained constant ( table 7.42 ) . |
| 17 | Now because the output tonnage had fallen slightly for once , they wanted his blood ! |
| 18 | It was reported on July 6 , 1990 , that World Bank lending to the developing world had fallen slightly compared with 1989 to US$20,602 million . |
| 19 | In 1872 , 45.5 per cent of the workforce of the nation were women , but by 1920 this proportion had dropped to 15.3 per cent and by 1950 , it had fallen even further to 11.3 per cent ( Saffioti 1978 ) . |
| 20 | For example , Vince ( 1952 ) concluded that the primary population had fallen both in numbers and relative proportion during the period 1921–31 , but that in some areas a new ‘ adventitious ’ population was beginning to replace them . |
| 21 | Rain had fallen continuously , the mountain spilling waterfalls into the amphitheatre . |
| 22 | Latterly , as the miles between themselves and the capital had lessened , Prince Richard had fallen uncustomarily silent . |
| 23 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 24 | Cut , but not removed , they had fallen forward , still ‘ hinged ’ , so to speak , to the bank , giving the impression of terra firma . |
| 25 | His head had fallen forward a little and his face was in shadow . |
| 26 | The tramp had fallen forward onto his face , his body twitching madly , blood spreading out around his head . |
| 27 | Edward had fallen forward , Irene had sagged towards the floor , and Nona still sat there , upright , supported by the arm of the chair . |
| 28 | Behind them dogs had fallen strangely silent . |
| 29 | Benjamin and Agrippa had fallen strangely silent . |
| 30 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |