See befall on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:",
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"ref": "1990, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates:",
"text": "This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.",
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"ref": "1994, Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49",
"text": "He said \"I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …\""
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"ref": "1996, Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism:",
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