Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] all over the " in BNC.
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1 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
2 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
3 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
4 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
5 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
6 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
7 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
8 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |