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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
A...hush fell over
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A sudden hush fell over the crowd.
fell headlong into
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I fell headlong into a pool of icy water.
fell into disfavour
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Coal fell into disfavour because burning it caused pollution.
fell into disrepute
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This theory fell into disrepute in the fifties.
fell into disuse
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The building eventually fell into disuse .
fell into...deep sleep
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He lay down and fell into a deep sleep .
fell on unresponsive ears (= was not listened to )
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His warning fell on unresponsive ears .
fell overboard
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One of the crew fell overboard and drowned.
fell short of...expectations
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Shares in the company dropped 26p yesterday, as profits fell short of City expectations .
fell silent (= became silent )
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The crowd fell silent when the President appeared.
fell silent
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At last the guns fell silent.
fell...against the yen (= decreased in value in relation to the yen )
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The dollar fell by 24 percent against the yen between 1970 and 1973.
finger of suspicion...fell on
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The finger of suspicion immediately fell on Broderick.
tripped and fell
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He tripped and fell .
turnover rose/fell
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Turnover rose 9%.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it fell off the back of a lorry
sb nearly/almost fell off their chair
the scales fell from sb's eyes
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It's high time the scales fell from our eyes, and our bathrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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63 percent of trees felled in Guatemala are used for fuel.
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More trees are being felled annually now than ever before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After he left, I fell to pieces.
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Following the end of the boom in 1988, prices fell fastest in regions which had shown the highest increases previously.
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His blond hair wasn't short cropped like the others, but was curly and fell over his collar.
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If she fell off would she be trampled?
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My legs gave way and I fell to my knees.
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The rain fell on empty streets.
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The rate fell below 3 percent only once, in early 1988.
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Toyota shares fell as much as 40 yen to 2, 230 yen.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tree
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Outside, another blossom fell from a tree , to join the others on the pavement.
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Anyone who used electricity or drove a car had no right to tell peasants to stop felling trees .
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Read in studio A forest ranger who uses a chainsaw to fell trees is now using it to sculpt the wood.
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With one swing of his ax, Paul felled twenty trees .
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A tree-ring date refers to the date of felling of the tree.
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He had been so charmed that he almost fell out of the tree like a drunken bird.
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Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack.
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As the pitch rose and fell , the trees themselves chimed in with groaning and creaking.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it fell off the back of a lorry
the scales fell from sb's eyes
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It's high time the scales fell from our eyes, and our bathrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After he left, I fell to pieces.
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Following the end of the boom in 1988, prices fell fastest in regions which had shown the highest increases previously.
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His blond hair wasn't short cropped like the others, but was curly and fell over his collar.
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If she fell off would she be trampled?
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My legs gave way and I fell to my knees.
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The rain fell on empty streets.
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The rate fell below 3 percent only once, in early 1988.
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Toyota shares fell as much as 40 yen to 2, 230 yen.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
swoop
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop .
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In one fell swoop , the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop .
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Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
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Flat fell seam is a neat, strong seam.
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In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.