Example sentences of "[verb] fall over " in BNC.

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1 the dinosaur has fallen over .
2 The Water Authority , well , there again , they 're interested to some extent in forecast rainfall , but they 're more interested in erm how much rain has fallen over quite a big area and erm over what a , what sort of period , so we maintain all the rainfall statistics throughout the country .
3 Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions .
4 I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step .
5 As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus .
6 ( It so happens falling over is the best aspect of my game . )
7 He 's swaying a bit and I have to grab him cos I think he 's going to fall over .
8 Make the whole world as smooth as a billiard ball , and people are still going to fall over and split their skulls open .
9 Or of , of mixed age group , let's put it like that , er , I only mention it because things are going to fall over and go to bed , erm , and everyone else stays up again .
10 Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over .
11 A successful I test is required to avoid falling over .
12 They do not see falling over as ‘ failure ’ ; it is simply part of the process of learning .
13 It keeps falling over .
14 We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again .
15 ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’
16 ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’
17 We would be amazed if a child decided that , since crawling was a perfectly good way of getting around , it would n't risk falling over by trying to walk .
18 The only trouble was NT kept falling over .
19 He 'll say : ‘ Mummy , I kept falling over . ’
20 Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical .
21 As I said before , people do fall over during fights .
22 Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air .
23 I 've fell over .
24 I 've fell over again — I just ca n't stay on my feet .
25 Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital .
26 On the top side of the platform , Daak had fallen over .
27 The three androids had fallen over , too , but they were still functioning , and were beginning to aim their blasters .
28 Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards .
29 She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over .
30 One 's fallen over .
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