Example sentences of "fallen into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then as dawn came up , he had fallen into a deep , dreamless sleep , waking suddenly to find his Aunt Bridget looking down at him . |
| 4 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 5 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 6 | He had uncovered his face ; the field was fallen into a curious quietness about them , as though they were alone . |
| 7 | Constance lay awake long after Ludovico had fallen into a heavy sleep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 10 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 11 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 12 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |