Example sentences of "of the [noun] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 2 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 3 | I was just thinking how this feels incredibly … atmospheric , ’ she heard herself admitting reluctantly , waving an arm to encompass the satiny darkness of the sea all around them , ‘ I was thinking of the ghosts of all those Spanish galleons which met a sticky end in these very waters , hundreds of years ago , ’ she added , with a touch of melodrama which made him laugh out loud . |
| 4 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 5 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 6 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 7 | If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’ |
| 8 | I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork . |
| 9 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 10 | The cathedral of York Minster became the centre from which the rich and powerful Archbishops of York helped to control the lives of the people all over northern England . |
| 11 | erm , and a lot of them training , but unless you can actually erm , increase their confidence , and that is the attitude of the people all over the place . |
| 12 | You ca n't please all of the people all of the time . |
| 13 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 14 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 15 | It believes that ‘ fooling all of the people all of the time ’ is entirely possible when the product or service is interesting or persuasive enough . |
| 16 | Whatever the outcome , one thing is clear : where new roads are concerned , you can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 17 | So some unscrupulous drug dealers are still trying to pass Ketamine off as E. Others , no doubt working on the basis that you ca n't fool all of the people all of the time , have thought ahead and worked out a clever marketing strategy . |
| 18 | Teachers who listen to all the conflicting noises that are made about education by the pundits will inevitably feel ( quite apart from their own ideals ) that there is no pleasing all of the people all of the time . |
| 19 | None of these methods will ease all of the people all of the time . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you know the saying : ‘ You ca n't please all of the people all of the time , just some of the people some of the time . ’ |
| 21 | We strive to please some of the people all of the time . ’ |
| 22 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 23 | PAMELA : I have the harmony of the spheres all around me , and every word that drops from your lips is sweet as honey . |
| 24 | He was strongly aware of the Wolfwood all about him as he walked cautiously under the Trees . |
| 25 | She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country . |