Example sentences of "be all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 2 | No wonder , living in voluntary filth ; but it is all over the street — will be all over the town unless there 's some special mercy on the place ’ |
| 3 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 4 | I 'll be all over your tee-shirt and coffee mug . |
| 5 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's going to be all over town — in fact , I ca n't think why it is n't already — and your mother will be the last to know . ’ |
| 7 | It would be all over town that her son wrote pornography . |
| 8 | They looked forward to that future time when God 's rule would be all over the earth . |
| 9 | This would be all over the town , whatever had I been thinking of , going down to the site , had n't I any sense ? |
| 10 | Otherwise , they 'd be all over the place under their own steam . |
| 11 | This would be all over the school tomorrow . |
| 12 | ‘ They will be all over gnat bites , ’ said Jasper . |
| 13 | He also remarked , significantly : If it were not for the Union , I venture to think that women would be all over the London trade . |
| 14 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 15 | When we use it in school , in When you 've scrapped some off the layer you ca n't touch otherwise your fingerprints will be all over it . |
| 16 | She said — they told me it would be all over soon and that when it was , I would be — all right . |
| 17 | As I 've said before , we ca n't be all over the flats at the same time . |
| 18 | The criterion also makes a claim about localization ; the changes can not be all over the brain but must be concentrated to some specific region . |
| 19 | Glynn 's prints must be all over the premises so there should be no problem . ’ |
| 20 | If you said the cops are all over , they 'll be all over Dave Tanner . ’ |
| 21 | It 's going to be all over town , in fact . ’ |
| 22 | Whatever the case , the story of Sister Jones 's ridiculous crush on Dr Tom Russell would be all over the hospital by the end of the day , and Belinda , feeling like a helpless little fish struggling in a vast invisible net , did n't know what to do about it . |
| 23 | It would be all over the organisation in minutes . |
| 24 | And I 'll do , I do n't know about the other they seem to be all over the place today . |
| 25 | In any case , ’ he added , turning to look at her intently , ‘ the fact that I was in your room at this hour will be all over the hotel by morning . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 27 | It 'll be all over the colony in no time . |
| 28 | He told people of a bag he 'd lent to her and which was found with her body ; He said his fingerprints would be all over his wife 's cars steering wheel ; and he told the police she 's been violent and upset when he left him . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ Johnathan 's photograph should be all over the world . |