Example sentences of "fallen [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 2 | A lock of dark hair had fallen down over his forehead and she was swept by a sudden yearning to put up her hand , feel the silken texture of it with her fingers . |
| 3 | Snow from the trees had fallen all over us and his arms and shoulders were covered in a white dust that sparkled in the light from my lamp . |
| 4 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 5 | Right Chairman , yes , the report 's for information , there are a few things to update , occupancy remains healthy , erm , the working total has fallen slightly over the Christmas recess , but erm , really by ten there . |
| 6 | THE US and Japan have fallen out over supercomputer sales . |
| 7 | America and Europe have fallen out over farm trade ; as a result , the negotiations at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) have broken down . |
| 8 | He and his wife had fallen out over it more than anything else . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you fallen out over it ? ’ |
| 10 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
| 11 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 12 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 13 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 14 | Oil consumption has fallen by over 20% . |
| 15 | Blood lead concentrations had been highest at age two , but had now fallen by over 40% . |
| 16 | Moreover , the areas where prices have fallen furthest , in the south of the country , are those where the market is weakest — in London and the south east house prices have fallen by over 9% in the last 12 months . |
| 17 | Since the Citizen 's Charter was introduced to British Rail , compensation paid for late or cancelled trains has fallen by over 50% . |
| 18 | Irrigation and agricultural policies — especially for the Soviet cotton industry — meant that the water level in the Aral Sea had fallen by over 14 metres over the last 30 years . |
| 19 | Worldwide alcohol consumption has fallen by over 13 per cent in the last ten years , reinforcing a downward trend that began in the late 1970s . |
| 20 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |