Example sentences of "the [noun] all [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the flames all round the pontoon . |
| 2 | Lewis 's and Blackler 's burnt out , and Lime Street — you ca n't hardly move for the hosepipes all over the ground . ’ |
| 3 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 4 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 5 | It is in the shops all round the world within two weeks of being recorded in Detroit and re-mixed in LA . |
| 6 | Well it would n't matter because you see , the treasure hunt takes the kids all around the show ground . |
| 7 | Nothing was said but he could sense the optimism all round the company . |
| 8 | Unless we start pasting bits of the script all over the set . |
| 9 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 10 | So as that we 'll hear the telephone all over the house . |
| 11 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 12 | That 's what I like about it , all the mountains all over the place , you know ? |
| 13 | You see , when they took a century 's dust and dirt off those walls , they completely changed the acoustics , swapping grubby absorbency for beautiful , bright marble which bounced the sound all over the place . |
| 14 | Dublin-born master flautist Brian Dunning and ex-Stockton 's Wing bodhran virtuoso Tommy Hayes were soon joined in Portland , Oregon , by Bothy Band founder Micheál O Dhomhnaill , and immediately the stage was set for a musical collaboration which has taken the band all over the world . |
| 15 | Kuwait government and the people of Kuwait provided assistance to the Palestinians all over the world , including the Palestinians living in occupied land . |
| 16 | The British Army has provided troops for the UN all over the world . |
| 17 | Do n't dot the foundation all over the face to begin with because it 's difficult to gauge how much is needed . |
| 18 | He could not resist showing off , hitting the ball all over the court and making her run around until she was pink with the effort and furious with herself for getting into such an undignified situation . |
| 19 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 20 | You get another player like Jimmy White , wonderful player to watch , I mean , you know , flashes the ball all over the place , knocks it in , wonderful player , er and has won a lot of championships , but Jimmy 's a totally different character , does n't practice anywhere near as much as Steve Davis . |
| 21 | He is not quite as good as Mike Gatting , who works the ball all along the ground on both sides of the wicket , but Graham now has no fear of stepping down the track to any spinner and planting the ball firmly over long-on . |
| 22 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 23 | CIE , the US-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility , and the International Organization of Consumer Unions , have all collaborated on many projects , and there are literally hundreds , perhaps thousands of transnational networks now monitoring the TNCs all over the world . |
| 24 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 25 | You ca n't please all of the people all of the time . |
| 26 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 27 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 28 | It believes that ‘ fooling all of the people all of the time ’ is entirely possible when the product or service is interesting or persuasive enough . |
| 29 | Whatever the outcome , one thing is clear : where new roads are concerned , you can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 30 | So some unscrupulous drug dealers are still trying to pass Ketamine off as E. Others , no doubt working on the basis that you ca n't fool all of the people all of the time , have thought ahead and worked out a clever marketing strategy . |