Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] all [prep] " 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 | I could not see the land , only mountains of water all around me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As I stood up , I heard cries of astonishment all around me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 11 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 12 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 15 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room . |
| 21 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 24 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 25 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |