Example sentences of "[art] [noun] fell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle was the only player who was up by the halfway line when we broke away , all too frequently and any long punt by the defence fell to the feet of Blackburn players . |
| 2 | At the first bump the strap sprang off and the bike fell onto the road , but as the front wheel was still tied on , the bike was dragged behind for over a mile , until vehicles hooting from behind warned me something was amiss . |
| 3 | Tabitha watched in diminishing triumph and mounting dismay as the Perk fell through the smoky air and struck one of the huge statues directly on the head . |
| 4 | ‘ The blow fell with the merciless swiftness of all misfortune ’ it was someone else 's line , a client 's presumably . |
| 5 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 6 | was recognising that there are classes of sureties for whom special protection should be given , that the case fell within the class , but that , on the facts , the creditor had done enough to prevent any equitable intervention in aid of the surety . |
| 7 | Lord Ackner said , at p. 828 , that the case fell within the exclusive jurisdiction of the visitor ‘ subject always to judicial review . ’ |
| 8 | The framework fell on the bird , so it could n't escape . |
| 9 | The consequences for arbitrage risk were also generally small , and 88% of the cases fell within the range 0.1% to -0.1% ( that is an extra profit or loss of about £60 per contract ) . |
| 10 | Surprised at being disturbed so roughly the nag jerked forward suddenly , the jolt snapped the rickety bodged-up slatting and the gramophone fell into the bottom of the cabinet . |
| 11 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 12 | Therefore , since property had not passed , the loss fell on the seller . |
| 13 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 14 | After dinner the talk fell to the great question which was uppermost in Lewis 's mind : that question being , in the words of his pupil Betjeman , ‘ and is it true , and is it true , this most amazing tale of all ? ’ |
| 15 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 16 | The light fell on the woman 's breast , neck , chin , and the tip of her nose , creating that gravity unique to him , which Vincent adored . |
| 17 | A glance at the corner where the copper stood , then at the doorway behind me , where the light fell on the gleaming worktops and new cupboards . |
| 18 | While support for the PLO fell in the West , there was little sign of the emergence of any alternative Palestinian leadership . |
| 19 | She 's since sung Pamina , Zerlina and Despina under Barenboim in Paris and , before the axe fell on the conductor 's brief reign at the Bastille , was to have done the three Da Ponte pieces with him and Patrice Chereau . |
| 20 | You 'll recall that the key fell off the agenda as well , earlier or should I say , was n't very painful . |
| 21 | After the failure of a ‘ respectable ’ revolution in 1819 the conspiracy fell into the hands of young officers and Masons who used the mysterious procedures of the sect in order to hide the fact that they did not have the ‘ old gang 's ’ financial backing for the reward of wholesale desertion . |
| 22 | The plaintiff must prove that the defendant fell below the relevant standard of care . |
| 23 | The books fell to the basement boiler room , where they were recovered by the thief . |
| 24 | One of the frogs fell off the branch and disappeared quietly into the leafy canopy far below . |
| 25 | At times Slavonia in the north and parts of Bosnia in the south were detached , and in the sixteenth century the whole inland area south of the Sava fell to the Turks . |
| 26 | The words fell into the silence and Hari waited for him to continue . |
| 27 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 28 | The cab was filled with steam and flame as the engine fell through the bridge . |
| 29 | The keys fell to the ground just as fast as the paper , despite the keys being a lot heavier and needing more force . |
| 30 | The submission that the transfer fell outside the authority conferred on Mrs. Steed under the power of attorney must be approached on the footing that , the non est factum plea having failed , the transfer was validly executed by Mrs. Steed . |