Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 4 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them . |
| 7 | Still , we 'll get dozens of men crawling all over this building again . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |