Example sentences of "falls back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 2 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 3 | The large part of the responsibility falls back on the parents — or , in some cases , on grandparents . |
| 4 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 5 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 6 | John falls back against the pillows . |
| 7 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |