Example sentences of "[vb base] scattered [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , eighty women sit scattered on the brownish-grey stony ground . |
| 2 | Opposite the Philadelphia was an almost perfect Roman amphitheatre ; other Roman ruins lay scattered on the hills , barely investigated by the experts . |
| 3 | Other columns lay scattered on the grass , and yet there was still such perfect grace and beauty to the place that Caroline felt her throat constrict . |
| 4 | The remains of duns , brochs , stone circles , burial chambers and standing stones lie scattered throughout the island . |
| 5 | They lie scattered amongst the hills and moorlands and skill using a compass and map is almost as important as skill using a fishing rod . |
| 6 | ‘ I have snapped my squeaking baby-trumpet of sedition , ’ he wrote in April 1798 , ‘ and the fragments lie scattered in the lumber-room of penitence . |