Example sentences of "it fell to [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chairman of the trustees , it fell to Herne to face the parliamentary attack of early 1698 on the fraudulent endorsements of these bills by ( Sir ) Charles Duncombe [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | It fell to Alexander to bear the full brunt of Napoleon 's ambition . |
| 3 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 4 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 5 | It fell to Horne to prepare the resulting North West Highland Memoir ( 1907 ) . |