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  • This is going to get nasty and if Osborne falis to stir-up some anger and passion towards Labour in his speech tomorrow then the Tories could end up being on the back foot all the way to Polling Day.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • This is going to get nasty and if Osborne falis to stir-up some anger and passion towards Labour in his speech tomorrow then the Tories could end up being on the back foot all the way to Polling Day.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • But even if McCain picked her, I never, ever thought he would do it without fully vetting her - not in this day and age, when TMZ will fill the void of vetting if the candidate falis to do so (and they have - go look at their Web site).

    Matt Littman: John McCain Hands the Democrats a Gift 2008

  • What I hoped I've kind of done, is to show how using causation's own reasoning, Reality falis to get out of the non-existent starting blocks.

    Fighter meets boxer ... Frank Wilson 2007

  • Mia onklo ne mortis per natura morto, sed li tamen ne mortigis sin mem, kaj ankaux estis mortigita de neniu; unu tagon, [Footnote: See Lesson 26, Note iii.] promenante apud la reloj de fervojo, li falis sub la radojn de veturanta vagonaro, kaj mortigxis.

    The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer

  • Gxi falis sur la fundon de la maro cxe la rompigxo de la sxipo.

    The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer

  • Multajn fojojn gxi supren rampis, kaj tiom da fojoj gxi falis malsupren.

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

  • Gxi ne estas sur la tablo, gxi falis sur la plankon, it is not on the table, it fell upon the floor.

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

  • Ili falis sub la tablon gxis la planko, they fell under the table as far as the floor

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

  • Li faris la bruon, cxar li falis de la arbo antaux sia domo, kaj tre lauxte ploris.

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

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