Example sentences of "had fallen [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 2 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 3 | On this basis the UK had held its own relative to the USA over 25 years but had fallen below the average of the six , certainly below Japan , West Germany and France ; indeed Japan overtook the UK in 1972 , West Germany in the early 1960s , and France in the late 1960s , but on this calculation the UK still lay ahead of Italy . |
| 4 | Punctuated by interjections from Mark , Clem told the story of how Mark had fallen into a barrel of high viscosity oil while standing on the lid to get at another barrel with his hand pump . |
| 5 | For the benefit of those who were not part of this scene , there was enormous and very real concern among the ruling classes that the whole of the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide which , of course , it had not . |
| 6 | These two approaches to medical treatment remained in use for several centuries , but by the time of Galen in the second century A D medicine had fallen into a state of chaos . |
| 7 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 8 | Constance lay awake long after Ludovico had fallen into a heavy sleep . |
| 9 | Then as dawn came up , he had fallen into a deep , dreamless sleep , waking suddenly to find his Aunt Bridget looking down at him . |
| 10 | Quote the story of the old soldier who saw that a watch had fallen into a bear-pit , climbed down into it , and was eaten . |
| 11 | Now he had fallen into a trap which the greenest copper would have avoided . |
| 12 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 13 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 14 | A man named Charles Lloyd had fallen into the river , and was in severe difficulties . |
| 15 | And because I 'd let her fall off , she would n't be allowed to be a nun any more , because she had fallen into the lake of mud and I knew you could n't be a nun unless your clothes were clean . |
| 16 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 17 | He then remembered that seven years previously an instant coffee machine had been installed in the building where he worked and he had fallen into the habit of having a cup every time he passed it . |
| 18 | Investigators could not check the bolts because they had fallen into the sea . |
| 19 | Unknown aliens had crafted all such force rods which had fallen into the hands of the Imperium , most notably the cache found in the ice-caverns of Karsh XIII . |
| 20 | Their Parthenon-building ancestors began that culture , and their Byzantine ancestors kept it alive when the rest of Europe had fallen into the dark ages . |
| 21 | There , a large rotten tree had fallen into the river . |
| 22 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 23 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 24 | Everyone thought that he had fallen into the river and been carried away . |
| 25 | 30–3–1884 Alex McLeod , Lightkeeper , Rhuvaal Lighthouse stated that he had fallen into the sin of fornication but he desired the privilege of baptism of his child . |
| 26 | Sergei Shakhrai , former presidential legal advisor , warned in Komsomolskaya pravda of Aug. 8 that the SC had fallen into the control of conservatives who were hoping for a return to the administrative-command system . |
| 27 | Her seven veils were much in demand ; one had fallen into the hands of the Party 's Wessex Area Treasurer who had undertaken to make it a prize in the Christmas draw . |
| 28 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |
| 29 | Owen had fallen into the familiar rhetorical style of the Arab . |
| 30 | But then Mr Clancy and Mr Venables , who had been standing by to offer encouragement , had fallen into an argument concerning position . |