Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] all over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 32 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 33 | ‘ When the tram passed Springfield Park , you know , by Alder Hey Hospital , I could see trenches dug all over the park . |
| 34 | Fox hounds get all over the place if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 35 | Amphibians have moist skins and keep them so with slime produced from small glands distributed all over the body . |
| 36 | According to Anwar , Jamila would become pregnant immediately , and soon there 'd be little Anwars running all over the place . |
| 37 | With its combination of beauty , beaches , culture and history , it has been long been a favourite holiday destination and its hot temperatures have drawn sun seekers form all over the world . |
| 38 | And lights flickering all over the prison . |
| 39 | I do n't like these sockets to be on the front , because it means cables trailing all over the amp ( and there 's so much empty space at the rear ) , although it does save having to crawl around the back before and after the gig . |
| 40 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 41 | There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls . |
| 42 | There were bodies strewn all over the road . |
| 43 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 44 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 45 | do the many cables from the computers and printers trail all over the place , or are they safely hidden inside trunking ? |
| 46 | Central vent eruptions occur all over the world , on the mid-ocean ridge volcanoes , at destructive plate margins , and along the African rift valleys ; there is no particular environment which is specially favourable to them . |
| 47 | Treasures front all over the world . |
| 48 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 49 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |
| 50 | These gaily coloured little creatures run all over the shaman 's body , and often live in convenient crannies such as in his ears and in between his toes . |
| 51 | But leisure journeys weave all over the place . |
| 52 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
| 53 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 54 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 55 | ‘ There 's absolutely no one there but tourists swarming all over the place . ’ |
| 56 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 57 | Drawers littered all over the floor , cushions ripped open . |
| 58 | Save the Children works all over the country to help children and their families overcome the effects of high unemployment , inadequate housing lack of community services , language difficulties and the family tensions that can follow . |
| 59 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 60 | There was a youth dance during one conference I staged and at six the next morning I did an automatic check on the adjustable lectern , Only to find graffiti-covered papers stuck all over the front . |