Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 2 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 3 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 4 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 5 | The two levels of arcades continue all round the church and the gallery , at first floor level , is of vast width and dimensions . |
| 6 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 7 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 8 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 9 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 10 | His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 . |
| 11 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 12 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 13 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |
| 14 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 15 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 16 | You have given up your rank of Sergeant to run all over these hills . |
| 17 | They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them . |
| 18 | Still , we 'll get dozens of men crawling all over this building again . ’ |
| 19 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 20 | These early movies are now lost , but her illustrated day book and many photographs remain — an important part of the record of women working all over Britain at the start of commercial photography . |
| 21 | Small blooms of fire exploded all around the sandbagged post and the steel door , the defenders huddling down for cover . |
| 22 | It 's easy to make one very expensive roll of wallpaper stretch all round a room which , if you could ever afford it , would normally take lo or I 2 rolls . |