Sentence examples for falling backward on from inspiring English sources

And then Martin Brodeur turned the game around with a magnificent double save -- first with his pad against Modano, then with his glove while falling backward on Hull's rebound shot from the top of the crease.

Later, Aoki made a catch falling backward on a ball hit to the warning track.

Have room behind your backs for falling backward on to the carpet; or have soft comfy chairs behind each person so that each of you sits upright.

Skyler leaped, gamely, and fell backward on his bottom.

At the last minute, he said, he changed his mind and lost his footing and fell backward on the sidewalk.

For my daughter-in-law Kris: At a skating party, she fell backward on her head and blacked out, unable to recall what had happened.

On the uneven bars, Liukin, a gold-medal favorite in the event, fell backward on her dismount, rolling awkwardly onto her back.

One demonstrator attempting to re-enter the site collided with an HSBC guard, who fell  backward on the sidewalk next to a steel-lined concrete flower box, on which he may have hit his head.

Dafoe's best stops came midway through the first period when he denied Daymond Langkow on a short-handed breakaway, and early in the second when he fell backward on top of a bullet from the crease by Primeau.

And midway through tonight's free skate, the Ukrainian Dmitri Palamarchuk sustained a head injury after he fell backward on the ice while lifting his partner, Julia Obertas, overhead with both arms.

It's also far less likely to fall backward on the class ladder in America than it appears to be in India.