Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] all over [art] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ That old geyser rushing about all over the place , trying to stop people dancing . ’
32 So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver .
33 The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton .
34 The targets were frequently altered , bomb loads changed , keeping the armourers constantly on the run with bombs lying about all over the field .
35 ’ Its noisy and there 's always loads of equipmenjt lying about all over the place , but it 's great fun . ’
36 They showed a thick scattering of settlement , of cottages and small farmhouses dotted about all over the place , and a corresponding splitting up of fields into small crofts and paddocks .
37 The wind-chill factor was obvious , but the wind-skill factor was non-existent and a series of nasty vendettas sprung up all over the pitch .
38 ‘ If I have to watch you any longer I 'll throw up all over the table . ’
39 Laura , you let me throw up all over the alley , all over Bill 's cab .
40 People will puke up all over the place and since it 's your fault , you 'll have to clear up the mess .
41 Whe whether it was involved in , whether there was any travel involved or whether it was all desk bound or anything else you know whether he goes zooming off all over the country or whether , whether there 's a possibility of travel involved or any danger in it , in the job , unlikely but
42 following the Robbins Committee Report in 1963 new universities sprang up all over the country and tertiary education in general was in a state of unexampled euphoria .
43 In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds .
44 It started to rain again , a light drizzle that caused umbrellas to pop up all over the place .
45 After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut .
46 Purple and yellow crocuses were popping up all over the lawn , the hard winter outlines of shrubs and trees were blurred by new growth like the fuzz on an adolescent 's upper lip , even the rows of savagely pruned rosebushes at the front of the house , separated by concrete walkways like a cemetery of spider crabs buried upside-down , were shoving out shoots and buds .
47 The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place .
48 A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe .
49 I said if our cat gets out all over the
50 As with Frankie , so much of the pleasure is bound up with the sense of something breaking out all over the surfaces of everyday life , and you being in on it from the start .
51 In the end , Hoveyda was tried by a revolutionary court and executed , but the story of the succession of prime ministers continued , with disturbances breaking out all over the country , up on the Caspian as well as in the major centres .
52 Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England .
53 Volvo seem to be moving out all over the place .
54 ‘ However , ’ Don Mini continued , still addressing Little Billy , ‘ you can not go flying around all over the place on Swan 's back in full daylight .
55 You 're wobbling about all over the strings .
56 Nobody knew where anyone was , and there were rumours flying about all over the place .
57 ‘ They said the programme was going to go out all over the worldbut we never saw it — we have n't got a TV , you see .
58 There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player .
59 Critics always say his work 's ‘ austere ’ or ‘ puritanical ’ because he likes bare raked stages and theatres with their brickwork sticking out all over the place and no props .
60 For the nation as a whole , the visible effect was a huge rise in unemployment and a vast drop in the gross domestic product , with factories , mills , and pits closing down all over the country .
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