Example sentences of "it fall back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 2 | No sooner does it fall back and hit the water than the whale flicks it into the air again with a blow of its tail or seizes it with its jaws and thrashes it on the water . |
| 3 | He bunched it and pulled at it , finally he pleated it between his knuckles , before letting it fall back . |
| 4 | She pulled a spliff half out of her breast pocket , let it fall back . |
| 5 | Webb-Bowen , who had raised his gavel , let it fall back gently into place . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so frustrating — like having someone twitch a curtain aside then let it fall back again before I can see properly . ’ |
| 7 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 8 | The pound climbed strongly against the dollar , jumping nearly three cents to $1.61 in New York trading , but in Europe it fell back almost three pfennigs against the Deutschmark after an initial boost from ERM speculation . |
| 9 | Well , I threw mine up but it fell back down . |
| 10 | Then it fell back again . |
| 11 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 12 | It fell back towards us and I caught the filmy ash on another plate . |
| 13 | I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree . |
| 14 | They indicate that it was already accelerating in the mid and late 1960s and actually reached a peak in the first three or four years of the following decade , after which it fell back substantially . |
| 15 | Opening the window , and somehow or other , the the sash it fell back , caught both her hands and jammed her finger . |
| 16 | She pulled a face , and ran her outstretched fingers through her long hair , pulling it out sideways from her head to that it fell back softly in the shape of a folding fan . |
| 17 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |