Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 2 | The G M B speaks for these workers , and we know that abolishing the Wages Council will not provide any hope or prosperity for millions of low paid workers all over Britain . |
| 3 | You want to stay here and rub some of that disgusting stuff all over Adam . ’ |
| 4 | With the gaunt warehouse and the high vista of derelict open space all round him , he sat on an oil drum , chewing gum . |
| 5 | She pulled it out of the pad with shaking fingers and tore it across and across again until it was a pile of tiny white flakes all over her bed . |
| 6 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |