Example sentences of "were scatter [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
3 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
6 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |