Heavy bands of Astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat

I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.

Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of: (80) (a) He stayed at home because of the strike (b) He fell out of the window (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know (80) (d) %It fell off of the table

The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it.