Example sentences of "fell from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It fell from a great height . ’ |
| 3 | The number out of work fell from a seasonally-adjusted peak of 3.1m ( 11.2% of the workforce ) in July 1986 to a low of 1.6m ( 5.6% ) in March 1990 , while the rise in earnings jumped by only two percentage points over the same period , to 9.5% . |
| 4 | A dummy bomb fell from a Royal Air Force plane , slightly injuring one man at a peace demonstration on a practice range at Nordhorn , Lower Saxony . |
| 5 | Watching through the kitchen window as the snow fell from a leaden sky , Seb suggested that Carrie ought to try to make her way home before it deteriorated even further . |
| 6 | Henry , a talented sculptor and musician from Faringdon in Oxfordshire fell from a top floor window . |
| 7 | A funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling hole , drawing attention to the skeleton of an ornate spiral staircase . |
| 8 | There was music , too , and those long shafts of light that fell from a high window , somewhere over to my right . |
| 9 | ACC real GDP growth fell from an annual rate of 8 per cent in the first half of 1973 to one of 3 per cent in the second half of the year ( though the latter figure was reduced by output losses resulting from the oil embargo ) . |
| 10 | They fell from an open door after missing their stop and last night a police spokesman said : ‘ There are reports of scuffles on board , but it seems unlikely the deaths will be treated as suspicious . ’ |