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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fallen leaves (= that have fallen off the trees )
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The children were jumping in piles of fallen leaves.
fallen on hard times (= did not have much money )
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He had clearly fallen on hard times .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But eventually it had all fallen into his lap, and Sarah with it.
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Fearless until now, I suddenly remembered the reason why pressure cookers had fallen out of favor.
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First, women were probably regarded as more hopelessly incorrigible, more totally irredeemable when fallen .
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Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.
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The hon. Gentleman will be delighted to know that unemployment in the Holloway area has fallen since 1987.
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The sun has now fallen behind the uneven horizon of buildings.
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Waiting game on hospital lists Hospital waiting lists have fallen by more than 100,000 since the general election.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
angel
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However, his elves are very like fallen angels , quite similar enough for confusion in the minds of fallible men.
branch
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He hid the second shotgun under a fallen branch at the foot of one of the pines shading the beach.
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Bogwood can be placed to represent fallen branches or roots in the stream, and provides further shelter for the fish.
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Across the centre of the Cages was the fallen branch .
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He crawled over to the fallen branch by the big pine, found his second shotgun and unwrapped it.
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Lee was sitting on the fallen branch .
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The woods were damp and overgrown; she stumbled through brambles and fallen branches .
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I look down at what I tripped over; a fallen branch , about the size of a man's arm.
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I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head.
tree
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Gratefully Paige dumped her bag beside the fallen tree .
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The cost of removing the fallen trees which have caused damage to the Building and/or Contents is also covered.
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She went on foot at first, past the litter of fallen trees .
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Charity personally felt he was going further and further afield to find fallen trees , but that was his business.
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The band retreated safely, blocking pursuit with rocks and fallen trees .
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He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree .
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One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow, rocks and fallen trees .
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Caspar came bounding out of the tangle of fallen trees below the cliff.
woman
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Whatever she can urge in mitigation, she is a fallen woman for the rest of her life.
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Brian and his friends advance on the fallen woman .
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She was a fallen woman , and her hair knew it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of inmates were collecting fallen leaves and stuffing them into black bags.
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Klift lay beneath the fallen slab, broken in body and mind.
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Kopyion pulled out the old revolver stolen from the Academician's apartment and moved over the fallen figure.
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Out of her window she watched the wind whisking fallen leaves along the gutter into pavement-high stacks of yellow and brown.
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She ducked her head in, and tried to go deeper before making towards the fallen flare.