Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] all over " in BNC.
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| 31 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 32 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 33 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 34 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 35 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 36 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 37 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 38 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 39 | Much of the syllabus has become part of the training of dancers all over the world . |
| 40 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 41 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 42 | The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country . |
| 43 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 44 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 45 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 46 | ‘ We have lost a lot of ponds all over the country , so the ones we do have are even more important as wildlife habitats . ’ |
| 47 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 48 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 49 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 50 | He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons . |
| 51 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 52 | Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room . |
| 53 | Questions similar to this one seem to occupy an inordinate amount of the energies of scientists all over the world , not to mention grouses about the shortsightedness/injustice/lack of imagination of a straight thumbs down to a researcher 's pet proposal . |
| 54 | a load of feathers all over his face . |
| 55 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 56 | If the changing rooms were full , girls would undress in the middle of the shop leaving piles of clothes all over the floor , such was their desperation to find the print and the style of their choice . |
| 57 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 58 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 59 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 60 | A series of alerts all over the mainland came as the IRA yesterday declared a 72-hour Christmas truce for Northern Ireland . |