Example sentences of "[noun] all [prep] the floor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biting her lip hard to prevent herself screaming at him to stop sitting there like some damned great Buddha she busied herself finding soap powder for the machine , and in her agitation knocked the packet over , spilling powder all over the floor . |
| 2 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 3 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 4 | He bled … he tried to reach the door … there was blood all over the floor … pints of it . |
| 5 | Ambulance , thank goodness someone 's remembered , patting this person 's hand , and putting blankets on and reassuring them , telling them everything 's alright , and blood all over the floor , thank god someone 's gone to get the ambulance |
| 6 | He was very dead , and there was blood all over the floor . |
| 7 | But there was so much blood — blood on her red petticoat , blood on her black dress and her white veil , blood on the executioner 's shoes , blood all over the floor . |
| 8 | He said ; There was blood all over the floor and rings scattered around . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , you 're making a mess all over the floor . |
| 10 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 11 | Well if you see how many pallets they got and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery they 're all the while dropping meat all over the floor . |
| 12 | See , I 've got glue all over the floor and it 's just |
| 13 | Through discussion , with chalk lines and discs all over the floor , a pattern began to emerge . |
| 14 | She strode through the newspapers all over the floor , some of them with dates from the thirties , even the war . |
| 15 | ‘ There was stale wee all over the floor . |
| 16 | Is that potato all over the floor there , do n't tread it in the carpet yes it 's potato round you |
| 17 | We 'll end up with all the fruit and vegetables and and the bread buns and the biscuits all over the floor . |
| 18 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 19 | When I see the squalor of your room which is filthy , and has your clothes all over the floor , frankly I get fed up ’ . |
| 20 | If the changing rooms were full , girls would undress in the middle of the shop leaving piles of clothes all over the floor , such was their desperation to find the print and the style of their choice . |
| 21 | He had cut out the bits of his clothes that were stained and burnt them too , but there were still bloodstains all over the floor . |
| 22 | ‘ George strips the wallpaper , takes the covers off books and spreads his hay all over the floor in one of our rooms , ’ said Mrs Stallard . |
| 23 | Er , I did n't have any idea er that I was going to start , obviously , er , but er , I first started at home in the backroom and had letters all over the floor . |
| 24 | Even gallons of Dettol ca n't mask celestial incense , and try as she might , there was incense all over the floor every bleeding morning . |