Sentence examples for falling over one another from inspiring English sources

The 1980s saw Japanese buyers falling over one another to bid on — and later regret — dubiously overvalued, bottom-of-the-barrel works signed by Impressionist masters.

People who used to laugh at Khan's ambition have been falling over one another to get on the P.T.I. ticket — or, failing that, to take selfies with him.

Our elected leaders need to stop falling over one another to declare their outrage and instead start focusing on passing programs that will help get our economy back on track.

At a time when other news magazines are falling over one another to put models, movie stars, and diet pills on the cover, the Economist still doesn't shrink from a 20-page report on Indonesian banks or a sassy take on the Nigerian economy.

So it is no surprise that companies are falling over one another to scrap pension plans.

"They should have been falling over one another to do the right thing – instead they've done nothing.

"The people fell over, one on top of the other.

"He was doing fine, and he just fell over," one runner said.

I was woken from my bed and when I tried to get up I fell over," one local man said.

The black mane of his youth, with that celebrated lock of hair that fell over one eye — cutting his forehead "like a scar," as an early friend remarked — has long since disappeared.

A wall falling over on film is one thing.