Example sentences of "was [verb] all over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 2 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 3 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 4 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 5 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
| 6 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 7 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The truck was skidding all over the autobahn , skating over the ice-rink surface . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Silence was descending all over the city . |
| 13 | He was rolling all over the floor |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |