Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] all over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The targets were frequently altered , bomb loads changed , keeping the armourers constantly on the run with bombs lying about all over the field . |
| 32 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 33 | ’ Its noisy and there 's always loads of equipmenjt lying about all over the place , but it 's great fun . ’ |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Laura , you let me throw up all over the alley , all over Bill 's cab . |
| 37 | ‘ If I have to watch you any longer I 'll throw up all over the table . ’ |
| 38 | People will puke up all over the place and since it 's your fault , you 'll have to clear up the mess . |
| 39 | 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 |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It started to rain again , a light drizzle that caused umbrellas to pop up all over the place . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 50 | Volvo seem to be moving out all over the place . |
| 51 | ‘ 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 . |
| 52 | You 're wobbling about all over the strings . |
| 53 | Nobody knew where anyone was , and there were rumours flying about all over the place . |
| 54 | ‘ 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Ethno-religious conflicts have sprung up all over the world in recent years . |
| 59 | The Interflora boom and Smiths devotees were sprouting up all over the place with their obnoxious shirts and silly haircuts . |
| 60 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |