Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] all over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very many sixth-century kouroi from all over the Greek world . |
| 2 | Ecclesiastics from all over the Christian world trained in Ireland . |
| 3 | The Engineers School attracts inventors from all over the Old World and has provided the Empire with a number of experimental weapons such as repeating muskets and pistols , multiple-barrelled cannons , mobile battle-towers called War Wagons , and the formidable Steam Tank . |
| 4 | Currency reform was ‘ essential ’ , said a resolution adopted after a protest here last week of trade unionists from all over the Russian Federated Republic . |
| 5 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 6 | They were made into medicines , perfumes and unguents by the Egyptian priests and priestesses who became so renowned for their skills that sages and physicians from all over the ancient world came to Egypt to study medicine and the Mysteries . |
| 7 | Young Muslim men from all over the Middle East were inspired by their preachers to join Afghanistan 's glorious war against the communist infidels . |
| 8 | Children from all over the Western Isles come to Stornoway to finish their secondary education accommodated in hostels at the Nicolson Institute or the Lews Castle Technical College . |
| 9 | Graham has been put before seminars of skin specialists from all over the British Isles — and has even seen one expert from Canada . |
| 10 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 11 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 12 | He summoned scholars and men of wisdom from all over the known world , his main personal tutor and mentor being Alcuin of Northumberland from England . |