Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The reaction that thriller writer Derek Raymond received for his most recent novel , I Was Dora Suarez , was disconcerting in the extreme : his editor vomited all over the fist chapter .
32 The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place .
33 In the east and centre of the county we find a close network of narrow , winding lanes , wandering from hamlet to hamlet and farm to farm , churches standing alone , isolated houses dotted all over the map , many of them called Hall or Old Hall — significant names .
34 the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble .
35 Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea .
36 ‘ Ca n't read a sodding map , gets his human body splattered all over the street , then takes off without a by your leave or kiss my elbow .
37 But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ .
38 There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific .
39 There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers .
40 I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success .
41 From this superb site , the hotel overlooks both Lake Garda and the colourful shops , restaurants , bars and boats dotted all around the shore line of the lake and in the harbour .
42 But the writers of the books of the Bible did n't want us to be put off and as we look closer , it 's easy to see the human touches that the Bible includes all along the way .
43 The graphics are stunning , with small but fast-moving sprites zipping all around the shop .
44 Rock'n'Roll explodes all over the scene .
45 The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding .
46 Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands .
47 She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform .
48 The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country .
49 I 've no doubt the joke went all round the Officer 's Mess .
50 Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place .
51 Needless to say I was not allowed to forget this incident and cartoons appeared all over the ship .
52 The English heritage is rich and , of these buildings standing all over the country , many retain a considerable Romanesque portion .
53 Schoolkids are the latest target in a sales ploy that has set tills ringing all over the country .
54 He then explained in a hushed voice how these bloody insects roamed all over the place .
55 Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place .
56 What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those .
57 There 'll be bombs popping all over the place .
58 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 .
59 She could see the thunderheads building all along the edges of her one perfect summer , and she shivered apprehensively .
60 The ball flies all over the place .
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