Example sentences of "[noun pl] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 2 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 5 | On this day in early June , the foliage was so lush , and the birds at this crucial young-rearing stage so wary that , although we could hear birds all around us , not a glimpse of a feather would we see — unless we followed the Warden 's advice , and skulked . |
| 6 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 7 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 8 | He would be able to visit libraries , museums and institutions all over Britain and make contact with other numerologists . |
| 9 | He joined a syndicate which invested in the insurance market … underwriting policies all over the world , from family cars to ships ' cargoes . |
| 10 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 11 | So she did — her brother-in-law , a schoolteacher with a young growing family , a huge mortgage and debts all over the place . |
| 12 | It bone breaths all over me . |
| 13 | A large travelling version of the exhibition was later prepared by SAVE , and shown in major museums and galleries all round the country over a period of three years . |
| 14 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 15 | Apart from a broken rib , massive bruises all over my body , and slight concussion , I was in one piece . |
| 16 | you had to belt the players so hard that you ended up with small bruises all over your hand from where their heads indented . |
| 17 | MONEY raised through the Church of Ireland 's Bishops ' Appeal will go towards relief projects all over the world . |
| 18 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 19 | Raleigh International 's current expedition in Namibia has young volunteers , aged between and 25 , working on eight projects all round the country . |
| 20 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 21 | There were teeth all around him , snapping and gnawing . |
| 22 | It was an enormous red folly with balconies all around the back and to the gardens at the sides , and had been divided into apartments . |
| 23 | Woke me up , shouting your secrets all over the mill . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He said his name was Christmas and he had worked his magic act in theatres and royal palaces all over the world . |
| 26 | It was quite funny really , garages all over Middleton overflowing with paper , ’ says Dave Fielding . |
| 27 | An intensive bout of lobbying by both sides followed during the next month , both in New York and in capital cities all over the world . |
| 28 | His mother was called a counter-revolutionary and his father was made to divorce her ; his schooldays were postponed as cities all over China exploded into violence ; his father was publicly denounced and sent to a reform camp ; and Liang Heng and his sisters were sent to labour in the countryside . |
| 29 | And , after some 40 exhibitions in cities all over the world , she can boast that every one of her 1,000 well-loved paintings has been sold , apart from a few she has deliberately reserved for herself . |
| 30 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |