Example sentences of "he fall [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 2 | He fell over on the deck and began to cry . |
| 3 | He fell down on the pavement and the crowd gathered round him . |
| 4 | When he returned he fell down on the floor clutching his heart in an agonia of pain and trembling . |
| 5 | He fell back on the settee with a thump as the memories of the previous night 's activities came flooding back . |
| 6 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 7 | Giddy , he fell back on the rug . |
| 8 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 9 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He falls down on the sand . |