Example sentences of "[pron] fell to [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fell to him to change the look of advertising for a well-known brand of cigarettes . |
| 2 | Included in episcopal temporalities were not only the advowsons which he possessed in his own right by virtue of the endowments of his bishopric but also those which it fell to him to exercise by default of the usual patron and the appointments to the cathedral chapter , two categories of patronage which he exercised by virtue of his spiritual authority over the diocese , not because of any land which he held . |
| 3 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 4 | Since eyesight requires that I do most of the close-up camera work , it fell to me to film the creature crawling slowly across Lorne 's fingers . |
| 5 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 6 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 7 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 8 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |