Example sentences of "the [noun sg] all [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 3 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 4 | Vic could imagine him spreading the story all round the works . |
| 5 | This can be avoided , however , by ensuring plenty of cross ventilation in the roof all round the eaves and at the gable ends by means of visible gaps , air bricks or ventilators . |
| 6 | Nothing was said but he could sense the optimism all round the company . |
| 7 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 8 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 9 | So as that we 'll hear the telephone all over the house . |
| 10 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 11 | You see , when they took a century 's dust and dirt off those walls , they completely changed the acoustics , swapping grubby absorbency for beautiful , bright marble which bounced the sound all over the place . |
| 12 | And they got elections now so the politician' all over the damn place . |
| 13 | Dublin-born master flautist Brian Dunning and ex-Stockton 's Wing bodhran virtuoso Tommy Hayes were soon joined in Portland , Oregon , by Bothy Band founder Micheál O Dhomhnaill , and immediately the stage was set for a musical collaboration which has taken the band all over the world . |
| 14 | Do n't dot the foundation all over the face to begin with because it 's difficult to gauge how much is needed . |
| 15 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 16 | He could not resist showing off , hitting the ball all over the court and making her run around until she was pink with the effort and furious with herself for getting into such an undignified situation . |
| 17 | You get another player like Jimmy White , wonderful player to watch , I mean , you know , flashes the ball all over the place , knocks it in , wonderful player , er and has won a lot of championships , but Jimmy 's a totally different character , does n't practice anywhere near as much as Steve Davis . |
| 18 | He is not quite as good as Mike Gatting , who works the ball all along the ground on both sides of the wicket , but Graham now has no fear of stepping down the track to any spinner and planting the ball firmly over long-on . |
| 19 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Almost anyone else witnessing the achievements of this small child would have been tempted to make a great fuss and shout the news all over the village and beyond , but not so Mrs Phelps . |
| 22 | It is shown in the priority all round the department , . |
| 23 | She supposed it was the sugar all over the table and floor that had made her mother cross . |
| 24 | When fixing a design in place with egg white or glue , avoid getting the adhesive all over the picture as it will catch the light when dry . |
| 25 | Digging up the road all over the place . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 30 | 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 . |