Example sentences of "fall off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , me foot , I 've fell off the bed ! ’ |
| 2 | If allowed to go overripe , barley ears tend to fall off the stems , and heavy losses can occur . |
| 3 | Witness Gordon Ansty , 27 , said : ‘ Something seemed to fall off the cockpit . ’ |
| 4 | In all my travels , I have not managed to fall off the edge of the world . |
| 5 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 6 | ‘ They sometimes look as if they 've fallen off the back of a lorry . ’ |
| 7 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 8 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 9 | Her white dress had fallen off the shoulder nearest him , her skirt was rucked up to mid-thigh , her hair rippled silver . |
| 10 | The bird , which had fallen off the back of a lorry in Leeds , West Yorks , was so solid it tore a hole in the sump of his Fiat Panda . |
| 11 | News on Sunday ended up with the worst of both worlds — a paper with metropolitan Right-On concerns , produced in a city that had fallen off the edge of the Right-On world . |
| 12 | It 's easily missed because its name has fallen off the entrance , leaving an incomprehensible hieroglyph . |
| 13 | He was only 18 years old , but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim " had fallen off the back of a lorry " . |
| 14 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 15 | She noticed that Tracey 's postcard had fallen off the mantelpiece , and put it back . |
| 16 | So what would you say to having your own thoroughbred for one hundred and ninety pounds a year … no its not one that 's fallen off the back of a horse box … but one that Cheltenham Racecourse has bought for its racegoers … |
| 17 | The other thing we noted about the fire chief 's report is that the brigade is to be re-named the Durham County Fire and Rescue Service , thereby emphasising its commitment to cats up trees , cows in clarts and budgerigars that have fallen off the perch . |
| 18 | As at least four other Darlington Labour councillors have received Mr Major 's plea , a fifth of the ruling group , it begins to look as if the wheels may have fallen off the Conservative administrative process altogether . |
| 19 | Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well ! |
| 20 | When the lorry finally drove away , loaded , we noticed that a book had ‘ fallen off the back ’ . |
| 21 | They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann did n't even know she 'd fallen off the chair . |
| 22 | Has it fallen off the roof ? |
| 23 | In the wild , even ripe pods do not fall off the trees ; they are opened in situ by squirrels or monkeys which suck the sweet pulp off the seeds . |
| 24 | Somewhere along the line Montague had learned a valuable lesson : that money can fall off the back of a lorry . |
| 25 | If the speed is too great then the vehicle may fall off the sides of the plank and crash . |
| 26 | After rapid heating and cooling , the skins will almost fall off the fruit |
| 27 | If you have approximately ten minutes of work left to reach a good stopping point and , if you have approximately ten minutes of time available ( e.g. before schoolchildren arrive home ) THEN either a few , some or all stitches will immediately fall off the machine and ruin all your plans to finish on time . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd actually fall off the bike . |
| 29 | That is why people in Australia do n't fall off the world . |
| 30 | One can not train students and then let them fall off the end of the course into a professional abyss . |