Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] all over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 32 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 33 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 34 | They could have put him down to graze somewhere and left him there quietly for an hour or two , but certainly yesterday he was running all over the field . |
| 35 | The truck was skidding all over the autobahn , skating over the ice-rink surface . |
| 36 | The publicity he gave to the idea in his paper was taken up by other newspapers and the example of Gloucester was followed all over the country . |
| 37 | Silence was descending all over the city . |
| 38 | He was rolling all over the floor |
| 39 | It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up . |
| 40 | The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . |
| 41 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 42 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |