Example sentences of "[adv] fell on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the door , he realised , as the light from inside fell on it , was not black as before , but bright pink . |
| 2 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 3 | Later that evening , when she and Anne were in Mrs Lynde 's warm kitchen , Anne suddenly fell on her knees . |
| 4 | fucking fell on his head did n't it , and the whole fucking shops in uproar . |
| 5 | Some light from the window above fell on her wispy hair and deeply lined face : even her closed eyelids were creased . |
| 6 | ‘ Just fell on me , that 's all . |
| 7 | Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face |
| 8 | it just fell on its face and it 's such a shame that the land like that er , er rich in everything , neglected themselves to that state that they 're begging for food |
| 9 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 10 | Sunday was the first and chief day of the week , and saints ' days always fell on the same date , as did some of the major festivals such as Christmas , which was celebrated on VIII Kal Jan ( 25 December ) . |
| 11 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 12 | The Gauthier daughters , however , were only too ready to talk ; they practically fell on Melissa as she attempted to make her way through their ranks . |
| 13 | She nearly fell on him in gratitude . |
| 14 | The impression of division given by Benn 's lengthy and vocal campaign , however , did immense damage to the party and the shambling , duffel-coated figure of Michael Foot walked straight into the delighted arms of the Tory press , which instantly fell on him and started taking him apart . |
| 15 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 16 | Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner . |
| 17 | Behind the figure of Ashar hugging the Shah legs , the four generals also fell on their knees . |
| 18 | Because England had failed to qualify for the finals , the entire weight of the British media inevitably fell on Willie Johnson 's head . |
| 19 | Ted Dexter , England 's chairman of selectors , last year appealed to counties to give their international players time off after tours — a request which mainly fell on deaf ears . |
| 20 | All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders . |
| 21 | In February he was told that Britain would probably be invading Norway soon , but his pleas to be in place beforehand fell on deaf ears . |
| 22 | The SPLA claimed that the Bright Star campaign forces had captured the garrison town of Kajo Kaji , on the White Nile , 100 km south of Juba , on Jan. 6 , after destroying an armoured column sent to relieve the town ; Kaya garrison , to the west of Kajo Kaji , reportedly fell on Jan. 14 , and on Jan. 28 the SPLA claimed to have captured the town of Yei , on the main road south-west from Juba to the frontier with Zaïre . |
| 23 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 24 | His eyes searched the room rapidly , then fell on the door leading to the connecting bathroom . |
| 25 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 26 | But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door . |
| 27 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |
| 28 | National campaigns , like the support for Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 , and the portrayal of the BUF as a peace movement in the later 1930s , either fell on deaf ears or were only partially successful in changing the focus of fascist politics from the parish pump and the anti-immigrant concerns of the East End of London to wider issues . |
| 29 | Real income actually fell on average for the five years to September 1978 . |
| 30 | It is the foretaste of such strains as never fell on mortal cars , to hear which we should rush to our doors and contribute all that we possess and are . ’ |