Example sentences of "[noun sg] all over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 2 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 3 | As we have seen , it is probable that pairs of virtual particles — one of matter , one of antimatter — spontaneously pop into existence all over the Universe . |
| 4 | Think , instead , of a large population in which there is not much movement , so that individuals tend to resemble their immediate neighbours more than their more distant neighbours , even though there is continuous interbreeding all over the whole area . |
| 5 | And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face . |
| 6 | Chadwick arrives , breezing into the bar , looking well and happy , with a big grin and his hair all over the place . |
| 7 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 8 | I found her by the side of the house with her dog , looking like a complete tramp , with a patched-up old coat and hair all over the place . |
| 9 | The little one was podgy with puppy fat and a front tooth missing and a ravishing smile and hair all over the place . |
| 10 | Hair all over the place ? ’ |
| 11 | He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw the evidence with my own eyes , Melanie wearing only a dressing-gown , her hair all over the place . |
| 13 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |
| 14 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 15 | For all its failings , it is the arts centre/civic centre circuit which contains the potential to allow exciting new , as well as still exciting but more established old , talents to take their creativity all over the country . |
| 16 | The immediate assumption is that there is a chemical communication between leaf and branch all over the tree , and this possibility is borne out to some degree by the character of leaf and caterpillar battles in other species . |
| 17 | so you 've got your hot doodah all over the top . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She 's ripped up everything in her bedroom and she 's thrown milk all over the kitchen . ’ |
| 21 | Simon Barrington-Ward , Bishop of Coventry , wrote recently ‘ We certainly have an experience all over the world of church leaders in loneliness needing to submit themselves to others and this is a crying need that is just not being met ’ . |
| 22 | He poked his head out almost immediately and exclaimed , ‘ direct hit on the shithouse — shit all over the place … that 's all we need ! ’ |
| 23 | I heard you playing your bagpipes in the church and when the Germans started to throw shit all over the village green , I knew that some bastard would be having a word with you . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When Mac got out of the aircraft Fagan stormed up to him and said : " You are a bloody fool , Mac , look what you 've done with your inconsiderate taxying , blowing this shit all over the camp . " |
| 26 | It was a cry that was gathering support all over the country . |
| 27 | It 's him on the white horse dropping his money all over the place , and those fellas with the funny bloomers following him . |
| 28 | Dr P was asked what effect the growth of English literature all over the world , and the advent of modern literary criticism , had had on English teaching in universities : |
| 29 | He became tremendously emotional and … compelling in his language … about the need to save Latin America , to save freedom , that these people were sacrificing for America and for freedom all over the world . ’ |
| 30 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |