Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 2 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 3 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 4 | The event was held in the school library and messages of hope were written to prisoners of conscience all over the world . |
| 5 | Alix was working on a customer , a young cinder-head naked on his belly on her couch , lasers primed and crouching like birds of prey all around . |
| 6 | I could not see the land , only mountains of water all around me . |
| 7 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 8 | One of the results of the quantitative increase in material culture , providing new domains of representation all working in particular ways , is to complicate further the problem of what may be termed material ideology . |
| 9 | As I stood up , I heard cries of astonishment all around me . |
| 10 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 11 | Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law . |
| 12 | There were tears of ecstasy all round . |
| 13 | If Hollywood ever made a film of it ( Ha ! ) , it would doubtless finish with violins , smiles and tears of joy all round . |
| 14 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 15 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 16 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 17 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 18 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 19 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 20 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 21 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 22 | That £5 million will buy an awful lot of sightscreens , heavy rollers and bags of loam all designed to improve the country . |
| 23 | It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . |
| 24 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 25 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 26 | Together we watched the beautiful funeral procession of the Dead Christ on Good Friday , and its station in Kolonáki Square ; and on the following night we waited by the reservoir till midnight to watch Lycabettus coming out in pinpricks of light all over , as the Easter candles were lit . |
| 27 | At night we 'd sleep in caves , huddled up in blankets with nothing to burn for firewood , while outside an icy wind swirled clouds of snow-dust all around us . |
| 28 | Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room . |
| 29 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 30 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |