Example sentences of "have fall [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step .
2 Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there .
3 By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca .
4 Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does .
5 Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display .
6 Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age .
7 When the trucks arrived we unloaded them , watching those who had fallen out on the march as they disembarked .
8 THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges .
9 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
10 Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges .
11 The constituent legislation of other tribunals contains provisions allowing access to the High Court , whereas some tribunals have to fall back on the appeals contained in s.13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 .
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