Example sentences of "[noun pl] be all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 3 | Her lines were all over the place tonight . ’ |
| 4 | So your capillaries are all over the place . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear de Craon , my troops are all over it . ’ |
| 6 | A moment later , the contents were all over the floor , and the woman gave a cluck of annoyance . |
| 7 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 8 | And the eggs are all over the place . |
| 9 | Religious paintings were all over the walls . |
| 10 | ‘ Could 've been , but nothing to suggest that it was : her prints were all over the car and nobody else 's . ’ |
| 11 | If you like to think that we started discuss discuss this discussion by saying there was a demand after the war , you can see now that we met it in , over and over again cos these machines were all over America . |
| 12 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 13 | Valerie 's got some wee ‘ do ’ on tonight and I popped over to Hyndland Road this morning because she was short of ramekins for her starters and the wee souls were all over Gran with their Selection Boxes , honestly any more would sicken me . |
| 14 | The young stars were all over the newspapers and fan magazines , and Nicholson loved to read and hear about their adventures . |
| 15 | His fingerprints are all over the car . |
| 16 | ‘ The police are all over the place . |
| 17 | His hands were all over you ! ’ |
| 18 | I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place . |
| 19 | Then this morning , the police were all over the college again and , by lunchtime , the master knew . |
| 20 | It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion . |
| 21 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 22 | ITN 's political match-summariser says that ‘ individually the polls are all over the place , but put them all together and you get a message you can trust ’ — not a science graduate , presumably . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 24 | employ twelve hundred people , much of their traffic passes through Bungay , their products , their employee and supplies are all over the place and their products are distributed country-wide , much of their traffic goes through Bungay , and I think they both have plans to extend their plants both er Buxton and Bernard Matthews . |
| 25 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 26 | She said erm her marks were all over the place . |