Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] all direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 2 | Allegations and denials about country hideaways , romantic recordings and Princess Di 's secret assignations fly in all directions . |
| 3 | Like many others I have protested in all directions against water-privatization . |
| 4 | But when he claimed another wicket the entire Notts team fled in all directions and left him — arms outspread — to celebrate embarrassingly alone in the middle of the pitch . |
| 5 | The topography and drainage patterns suggest certain routes by which invaders have penetrated from all directions into the Balkan heartland . |
| 6 | Neither moneychangers , nor bystanders , nor Jesus 's own followers are likely to have stood idle , or engaged in theological debate , while loose coins rolled in all directions . |
| 7 | There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions . |
| 8 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 9 | Nails was thrown about , feeling like a sack of potatoes , jerked in all directions , but Nutty had no mercy , keeping the pony going . |
| 10 | The guilty one quickly slumped to the ground and her body jerked in all directions . |
| 11 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |
| 12 | As the bus pulled from the curb , I saw the fat gate-guard and two others puff out the side door of the terminal looking in all directions . |
| 13 | Ash cascaded in all directions . |
| 14 | Volunteers constantly tug in all directions while others bewail the imminent end of the organization — just as they did last week , last year and ( in a few cases ) last decade . |
| 15 | As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him . |
| 16 | … on , on , on tears the mad dragon of an engine … scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire ; screeching , hissing , yelling , panting ; until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way to drink … and you have time to breathe again . |
| 17 | The frightened ducks slapped water with their feet and wings , scattering in all directions . |
| 18 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 19 | They 'll be scattering in all directions still , and hunted everywhere . |
| 20 | Bill began to bulge in all directions . |
| 21 | Thoughts came from all directions and collided . |
| 22 | She 'd never expected rockets to go off and stars to shoot in all directions — leastways , not from just a casual brush of flesh against flesh … |
| 23 | This is attached to the mast foot and allows the rig to be moved in all directions . |
| 24 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 25 | Don caster was soon the second largest railway centre in Britain and lines intersected in all directions . |
| 26 | Granted harmonious co-operation between the NID and the BDDA the cause of the deaf is bound to prosper in all directions . |
| 27 | It extended as far as she could see in all directions . |
| 28 | Flies can see in all directions at once because they have large eyes with thousands of lenses . |
| 29 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 30 | There was a general murmur of enthusiasm from the assembled company who dispersed in all directions , pelting down the alleyways and pushing down doors to find the best houses for themselves . |