Example sentences of "scattered all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ?
2 On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central .
3 Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart .
4 There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific .
5 There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls .
6 There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers .
7 The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism .
8 The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country .
9 The majority of the deaf and dumb were still leading wretched and isolated lives , scattered all over the country singly or in small groups , untouched by change and ignorant of the world at large .
10 The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor .
11 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
12 and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation
13 We have offices — they are in the phone books — scattered all over the county , local offices .
14 With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments .
15 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
16 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
17 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
18 and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ?
19 The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape .
20 I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here .
21 But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ .
22 It just lifted the roofing from the base of the stack and hen houses just scattered all over the place .
23 And there 's this thing scattered all over the place
24 In the last two decades of the fourth century a fair number of cities , scattered all over the empire , experienced riots in which fanatical Christian mobs destroyed temples and ‘ purged the idols ’ .
25 The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House .
26 You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city .
27 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
28 Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually .
29 The cigarettes scattered all around the floor .
30 Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain .
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