Example sentences of "had fall [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two approaches to medical treatment remained in use for several centuries , but by the time of Galen in the second century A D medicine had fallen into a state of chaos . |
| 2 | Quote the story of the old soldier who saw that a watch had fallen into a bear-pit , climbed down into it , and was eaten . |
| 3 | Now he had fallen into a trap which the greenest copper would have avoided . |
| 4 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |
| 5 | Marlies thought I had fallen off a ladder fixing a letter G from the conference slogan of that year , ‘ Britain Winning Through ’ . |
| 6 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 7 | She lived alone and had fallen off a ladder in her sitting-room . |
| 8 | The price of freshly mined uranium had fallen to a point where recycling spent uranium fuel made no sense , whilst the prospect of the plutonium being used in a fast breeder reactor was a distant hope . |
| 9 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 10 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 11 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 12 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 13 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 14 | In a newly refurbished children 's ward in the Withers Block , debris had fallen on a father who was nursing his baby daughter . |
| 15 | What if his bombs had fallen on a hospital ? |
| 16 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 18 | He shrugged , but wariness had fallen like a hood over his eyes . |
| 19 | He escaped in his pyjamas , and the plaster of Paris on his leg was sopping wet where he had fallen in a ditch , but he was in good spirits . |
| 20 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 21 | Inflation had fallen from a high of 15.7 per cent in 1987 to 4.9 per cent at end-1990 , but at the cost of falling output and a sharp rise in unemployment . |
| 22 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |