Example sentences of "the [noun] be all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another 30 seconds the Vanguard called " BN is established on localiser and glidepath ; the ADF 's all over the place in this weather " . |
| 2 | The money was all in a pot . |
| 3 | The talk was all about the plague , which was coming back again into London . |
| 4 | and erm the car 's all over the place because the wheels are all covered in mud and everything so |
| 5 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 6 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 7 | I soon became absolutely obsessed with discovering acanthus everywhere , because the motif is all over the place , in wallpapers , in lampshades — everywhere I found acanthus . |
| 8 | A moment later , the contents were all over the floor , and the woman gave a cluck of annoyance . |
| 9 | And the eggs are all over the place . |
| 10 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 11 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 12 | In the first series the emphasis was all on the very street-sussed young women who went out and solved all kinds of crimes , problems and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ The police are all over the place . |
| 14 | I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place . |
| 15 | Then this morning , the police were all over the college again and , by lunchtime , the master knew . |
| 16 | The moor was all round the saucer in which Chesney lay but the best views of it were from his house , the last house before the road curved round . |
| 17 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 18 | The Market 's all over the place . ’ |
| 19 | ITN 's political match-summariser says that ‘ individually the polls are all over the place , but put them all together and you get a message you can trust ’ — not a science graduate , presumably . |
| 20 | And then she 's , you 're trying to feed her and the , the dinner 's all over the place . |