Example sentences of "were scattered [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World War I brought big orders for standard Great Central 2-8-0s for the Railway Operating Division and these were scattered widely across the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He loved Meli so much his ashes were scattered all over her grave |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 8 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 9 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |