Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] all over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 I hit it all over the place .
32 He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking .
33 ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 .
34 One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier .
35 That bike took me all over the place .
36 If you go up there just leave them as they are do n't leave them all over the place .
37 Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world .
38 I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world .
39 I mean in , in he did n't leave it all over the yard and all that you know .
40 It 's Amy 's blanket love I do n't want it all over the floor .
41 Cos I do n't want it all over the floor .
42 boiled it all over the place .
43 Spilt them all over the floor
44 ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC .
45 As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater .
46 Her work has taken her all over the world .
47 Thought we 'd dig it all up and move move it all over the place wo n't we ?
48 Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress …
49 and stick them all over the room .
50 By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky .
51 You 've got ta eat it , not throw it all over the table !
52 Boy , I 'll bet they got ta surprise when their lunch turned round an ’ kicked 'em all over the forest . ’
53 Do n't do it in one , it does it all over the floor
54 He ran us all over the shop .
55 They played some great stuff and ran us all over the place .
56 You 'll find them all over the country .
57 So you will find them all over the world .
58 ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday .
59 I respect that , I do n't expect her to follow me all over the place and be knitting until the show has finished .
60 ‘ At which point , I assume , the engine cut out and the notorious cross-currents of the sound hurled you all over the place until you were swept overboard . ’
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