Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] all direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 2 | Like many others I have protested in all directions against water-privatization . |
| 3 | The topography and drainage patterns suggest certain routes by which invaders have penetrated from all directions into the Balkan heartland . |
| 4 | Neither moneychangers , nor bystanders , nor Jesus 's own followers are likely to have stood idle , or engaged in theological debate , while loose coins rolled in all directions . |
| 5 | Nails was thrown about , feeling like a sack of potatoes , jerked in all directions , but Nutty had no mercy , keeping the pony going . |
| 6 | The guilty one quickly slumped to the ground and her body jerked in all directions . |
| 7 | This is attached to the mast foot and allows the rig to be moved in all directions . |
| 8 | Halifax and Frizingley had been invaded from all directions , the streets sprouting Chartist placards like weeds from every chink in the cobbles , demanding what John-William himself had once demanded . |
| 9 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 10 | For you , desire is a mobile flung in all directions and getting nowhere . |
| 11 | And further he asserts , not only is the universe expanding , due to being flung in all directions by this genetic detonation , but that space itself is also expanding . |
| 12 | It is entirely land-locked , which means that it is bordered in all directions by other countries — Zambia , Zimbabwe , Namibia and South Africa . |
| 13 | The explosive charge would have been either flat , circular or cylindrical and in any of those cases the disruptive explosive power would have been uniformly distributed in all directions . |
| 14 | This was tough , ‘ pilled ’ in wear and stretched in all directions . |
| 15 | Lush , green fields stretched in all directions . |
| 16 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 17 | A molecule in the bulk of a liquid is pulled in all directions equally by the intermolecular forces . |
| 18 | Instead , she was allowed to dominate the play , instead of Ken , or instead of Michael Bryant , around whom the action took place , the character who was being pulled in all directions . |
| 19 | This EEC sponsored kite was pulled in all directions . |
| 20 | In the ensuing panic zebras run in all directions , many of them right into the paws and jaws of another waiting lioness . |
| 21 | The desert was cut in all directions by sandy scars , and there were tyre-tracks everywhere but with no hint of general direction . |
| 22 | A mass of bodies scrambled over the shelves , everybody was shouting at one another and books were being thrown in all directions . |
| 23 | Worcester was burnt , and the shire ravaged , but few people killed : they had fled in all directions . |
| 24 | Thorough preparation of the plot before sowing also say off those other perennial horrors , couch and horsetail , both of which can go down 6ft or more and spread in all directions . |
| 25 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 26 | These spots then spread in all directions and several of them merge to form a turbulent slug . |
| 27 | For John Simon , it was ‘ so puny a play that if it were not extended in all directions by Dustin Hoffman 's life-giving performance , it would barely be discernible to the naked eye . |
| 28 | Confetti showered down on us and congratulations were shouted from all directions . |