Example sentences of "[pers pn] all over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 2 | Marie says it 's to keep the noise in , but I do n't reckon it works too well , cos you can hear them all over the house when they practise . |
| 3 | Read it in our way and we shall merely be , as Lewis says in the preface to The Discarded Image , like ‘ travellers who carry their resolute Englishry with them all over the Continent , mix only with other English tourists , enjoy all they see for its ‘ quaintness ’ and have no wish to realise what those ways of life , those churches , those vineyards mean to the natives ’ . |
| 4 | At 19 these young people — and hundreds like them all over the country — are likely to be going home and staying there . |
| 5 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |
| 6 | So you will find them all over the world . |
| 7 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 8 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 9 | And that 's a , and that 's them all over the country , not only Edinburgh , all over the country , in north south east and west and you name it . |
| 10 | Now Mr. Lennis is turning them all into tramps , sending them all over the place wherever he can pick up a cargo . |
| 11 | Wearily , she began to look for them all over the theatre . |
| 12 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 13 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 14 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 15 | You 'll find them all over the country . |
| 16 | Well , we already do that at the moment , trying to assess a myriad of individual benefits with people filling up forms and sending them all over the country . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 20 | I me , well you can never find anything if you got them all over the place ! |
| 21 | If you go up there just leave them as they are do n't leave them all over the place . |
| 22 | she said they seed freely , so we 'll have to watch we shall have them all over the garden next year |
| 23 | Yes I have to carry them all over the place . |
| 24 | Yeah , oh do n't tip them all over the table sweetheart |
| 25 | Spilt them all over the floor |
| 26 | What are we doing Wednesday ? yes , we 'll have one there , and we 'll have one there , I 'm sticking them all over the place , but you 'll see what I mean . |
| 27 | and stick them all over the room . |
| 28 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 29 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |