Example sentences of "[verb] all [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 2 | For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions . |
| 3 | Nearly all rack effects have their connectors at the back and I find it looks very untidy having cables hanging all over the front of an amp . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not prepared to go all around the world with England any more as third or fourth choice . ’ |
| 5 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 6 | I recall as a boy watching in admiration as Mr. Harry Martin , the signwriter wrote The Brewery Tap all along the front of the building , some thirty feet above street level . |
| 7 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 8 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 9 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 10 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 11 | The quare fella here is Master of the Tipperary and they hunt all along the valley of the Suir — the way the line is to go . |
| 12 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 13 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili . |
| 15 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 16 | That 's why I take a small telescopic rod , a tiny fixed spool reel and lures all over the world with me . |
| 17 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 18 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 19 | There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available . |
| 20 | Apples are now grown all over the world from Himachal Pradesh in northern India to small luxury orchards throughout Africa . |
| 21 | People must be hunting all over the country for him . |
| 22 | When will the Prime Minister apologise to the British people for the disgraceful inequities and sheer misery caused all over the country by the poll tax , which he was one of the first people to promote ? |
| 23 | The fact that we 've got partnership holders and sanctuary housing association , would seem to me that we 're quite likely to get relocation and we 've had all round the town at the moment , and you would have to agree that here is a very strong reason for , for the medical centre to be worried about the effect on the medical centre . |
| 24 | Run all over the board like that . |
| 25 | High above them , the base of the Bridge passed through a cone of semi-transparent cables , which were anchored all around the edge of the depression , before continuing downwards to merge smoothly with the bubble itself . |
| 26 | Were you shown all around the school including the classrooms ? |
| 27 | Both had their moments and , for the first time , both were shown all around the world on television . |
| 28 | Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories . |
| 29 | There is a further circle and , beyond this , arches all round the baptistery in two tiers . |
| 30 | Stephen , you do n't want to leave all over the kitchen like that , it 's really . |