Example sentences of "fall [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud . |
| 3 | Swarf smiled in triumph , letting the body fall on to the ground . |
| 4 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 5 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 6 | He could fall in with the desire of Sapt , marry her secretly and fill the empty place in the Elphberg dynasty . |
| 7 | I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’ |
| 8 | It is not possible for example to predict that Mr Smith will have a heart attack or that Mrs Williams will fall over in the snow and break her leg . |
| 9 | The heat shields were still intact and the computer assured him that they would not crack or fall off on the journey through the atmosphere . |
| 10 | There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ranulf was now fast asleep and the clerk breathed a prayer that his servant would not fall out of the saddle and break his neck . |
| 13 | A dead body will fall out of the telephone |
| 14 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 15 | we might see boats fall out of the sky too . |
| 16 | ‘ People and cars do n't fall out of the sky , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 17 | He says the load would stick at the end of the plane , making it stall , and it would fall out of the sky like a lift |
| 18 | The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily . |
| 19 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 20 | When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards . |
| 21 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
| 22 | I hope all the bits do n't fall out of the box . |
| 23 | ’ Which means you 'll fall back into the Vid , ’ she said . |
| 24 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 25 | However , where negotiation fails , the parties must fall back on the law , and their rights and liabilities will then be governed by the terms of their contract . |
| 26 | does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something . |
| 27 | She let her head fall back on the pillow , her body arching in swift sensuousness , inviting and inciting the continuation of his caresses . |
| 28 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 29 | To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant . |
| 30 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |