Example sentences of "[pers pn] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The landlady told her he would drive them all round the twist , he was born to chase a bob without success , and he left queer books lying around . |
| 32 | I would hang them all round the school and you 'd all get stuck to them and that would be the end of it . |
| 33 | When I finish putting them all round the bed , it looks real nice . |
| 34 | He used to find them all round the place ! |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 38 | That bike took me all over the place . |
| 39 | I respect that , I do n't expect her to follow me all over the place and be knitting until the show has finished . |
| 40 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 41 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 42 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 43 | During half-time today a number of police officers will be questioning you all over the disappearance , during the early hours of Monday morning , of our grandstand . |
| 44 | ‘ As I said to you all over the phone , it 's a Code Red operation . |
| 45 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Or are you all over the place ? ’ |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 48 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 49 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 50 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 51 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 52 | ‘ 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 . |
| 53 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 54 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 55 | ‘ His business takes him all over the world . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 57 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |
| 58 | All went well until RAF Benson had chased him all round the sky and their MATZ before issuing their not unusual request to ‘ resume your own navigation ’ leaving him totally lost , heading into a nasty and unforecast rainstorm and trying to track into the White Waltham entry lane using cross-cuts on the single VOR . |
| 59 | But in that 11th , Benn was the Dark Destroyer of old , first knocking Piper down for a count of eight with three big rights and a sweet left hook and then punching him all round the ring — blood spurting from Piper 's mouth with every blow — until referee Larry O'Connell mercifully stopped it . |
| 60 | Fernando had driven her all over the island . |