Sentence examples for had collapsed on from inspiring English sources

For example, some of us dreamed at different times that the station had collapsed on one side, leaving us to live a "slanted" life, on an incline, for the rest of the winter.

The scaffold had collapsed on one side, and was tilted crazily at a 45-degree angle, the left (lower) end just outside our windows, resting on the shattered air-conditioner, and the right end somewhere out of sight, up on the ninth or tenth floor.

However, a bridge had collapsed on Route Nine, one of the main thoroughfares, bringing traffic to a standstill.

We had been trapped inside for so long that the heat was unbearable; more people had fainted, and one man had collapsed on the floor, struggling for breath.

A lung had collapsed on the plane.

Ceilings had collapsed on each of its three floors.

Thousands of tonnes of earth have collapsed on to the beach from one of the UK's most popular coastal paths.

I have collapsed on the floor.

"I would have collapsed on the field," Culbreath said.

"The criminal justice system has collapsed on us.

Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello.