Example sentences of "fall off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it does n't fall off in the soup , it never falls off , it 's only the ones you see on the advertisements that fall off . |
| 2 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 3 | Now that was a year , but , er because you was n't a bound apprentice , when trade fell off in the winter , and it fell off drastically in the winter , and then built up for Easter , when everyone in those days bought new clothes . |
| 4 | right and it falls off in the soup |
| 5 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 6 | These reforms were ultimately to cause the falling off in the composition of orchestrally accompanied church music as such accompaniments would only be required for special feast days and there would be no place for it in everyday circumstances . |
| 7 | Argyle and Henderson ( 1985 ) , reviewing evidence about contact between siblings , suggest that this follows a U-shape , being high in childhood and teenage years , falling off in the middle of adult life , and then picking up again as the siblings move into old age . |
| 8 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 9 | ‘ Fall off in the cold . ’ |