Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] all over " in BNC.

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1 A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city .
2 He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket .
3 To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief .
4 Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on .
5 This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard .
6 If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’
7 I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork .
8 Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set .
9 She erm lived in a rented room in a settlement house in New York and she really provided the , the energy of the movement all over the country .
10 Digging up the road all over the place .
11 Many reunions of the men who flew to the airfield all over East Anglia , but yesterday saw the biggest ever get-together of combat airmen in Britain .
12 We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us .
13 Resulting from our systematical radio monitoring work around the clock all over the world .
14 Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous .
15 The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 .
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