Example sentences of "fall on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 2 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 3 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 4 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 5 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 6 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 7 | The whole column proceeded to fall on to the ground . |
| 8 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 9 | Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud . |
| 10 | Swarf smiled in triumph , letting the body fall on to the ground . |
| 11 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 12 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 13 | The nozzle of the big cleaner appears , it keeps coming until it falls on to the furniture and other junk piled against the wall . |
| 14 | Delia Sutherland fell on to the cream leather sofa with her arms stretched across the back of it , her legs stiff in front of her , laughing uncontrollably . |
| 15 | I could not speak nor breathe , and fell on to the sofa . |
| 16 | The cartridges on the back seat fell on to the floor . |
| 17 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 18 | Some of the white substance fell on to the floor . |
| 19 | The Time Lord fell on to the floor and the pain ceased . |
| 20 | He braked hard and managed to stop before impact , but the woman fell on to the road in front of his car . |
| 21 | In 1975 , he fell on to the dole queue . |
| 22 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 23 | Drops of blood fell on to the chicken . |
| 24 | The first wagon fell on to the wreckage and so the premonition ended . |
| 25 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
| 26 | Suddenly there was a terrible crash of thunder , and the branch of a tree fell on to the roof . |
| 27 | Just then the girl dropped her cloak , and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket . |
| 28 | Carolyn could hear the hissing of the sand as it fell on to the plastic and then , when it had covered the bottom of the carton , the way it fell almost silently , with a whisper of its former sound . |
| 29 | He stumbled then fell on to the track , his scream silenced abruptly as he disappeared beneath the screeching wheels . |
| 30 | Suddenly she heard the sound of an approaching car on the road running alongside the promenade , and as its headlights shone on them , she tried to pull away , turning her head so that his kisses fell on to the side of her face and down on to her shoulder . |