Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently you could hear them shouting all round the college . |
| 2 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 3 | I was gon na say you wobbling all over the place are n't you ? |
| 4 | Do n't want you craving all over Mr ! |
| 5 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 6 | Damian lunged after Tony , his face dark with rage as he bit out thickly , ‘ You 're like a bloody wasp , stinging at me — driving up in your red sports car , honking your horn , taking her dancing all over town , kissing her behind my back , sending me a painting of her half naked for my wedding present ! ’ |
| 7 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 8 | Erm four point five talks about I mean we talked about everybody charging all over the country doing various visits . |
| 9 | So why are n't they crawling all over the place ? ’ |
| 10 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 11 | And although this work has seen him working all over Britain , Ireland , Europe and the US , he thinks it is time for a change . |
| 12 | She saw it happening all around her . |
| 13 | ‘ You saw it spilling all over Miss Trunchbull , did n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | Well I 'll come and help you Tim cos we do n't want it falling all over the place . |
| 15 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 16 | Every day they took us out and set us crawling all over the tube from outside , scraping the micrometeorite dust off the glass . |
| 17 | ‘ Besides , ’ he went on , ‘ I 've no objection to your dripping all over the carpet . |