Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] fallen on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 2 | I 've fallen on the stairs . |
| 3 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
| 4 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 5 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 6 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 7 | Could she have fallen on it ? ’ |
| 8 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 9 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 10 | They 're raising money to help former Belgian resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times . |
| 11 | You 've fallen on your feet , let me tell you , you 'll get good food in this house . |
| 12 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 13 | But that , too , was the time when Mrs Aggie struck her so hard that she had fallen on her back , and all because she had called Mrs Nelson ‘ a bloody cow ’ . |
| 14 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 15 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 16 | Firemen helped ambulance staff lower a workman who had fallen on a roof at a housing site at Ash Green , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 18 | It is a time when those who have fallen on bad times have their freedom and property restored . |
| 19 | In ‘ The Real Thing ’ a painter is offered the services of an extremely genteel couple who have fallen on hard times and are willing to act as models for his illustrations of aristocratic life . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've fallen on our feet tonight , eh ? ’ |
| 21 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 22 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 23 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 24 | Bill would roll his head up from where it had fallen on his shoulder and open his eyes cautiously . |
| 25 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 26 | He had fallen on his head , which was bent under him , and his neck was broken . |
| 27 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 28 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 29 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |