Example sentences of "[vb past] all over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 2 | Most of the rest of the iodine reached the population via milk , produced all over the country , that was not banned . |
| 3 | The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't read a sodding map , gets his human body splattered all over the street , then takes off without a by your leave or kiss my elbow . |
| 5 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 6 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 7 | Chucked all over the place . |
| 8 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 9 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 10 | Similar incidents occurred all over the Old City and the manpower Owen could command was stretched to its limit . |
| 11 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 12 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 13 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 14 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 15 | You 've inspected the washroom , taken away a cupboard , photographed all over the place . ’ |
| 16 | Played all over the place ai n't he ? |
| 17 | Throughout the year therefore emissaries from the congregation drove all over the place , from Kirkcaldy to Bonnyrigg , Carricknowe and Musselburgh , and on their return had |
| 18 | When will the Prime Minister apologise to the British people for the disgraceful inequities and sheer misery caused all over the country by the poll tax , which he was one of the first people to promote ? |
| 19 | The adventure takes place in our world ( Earth , that is ) and Luigi can find himself transported all over the world . |
| 20 | In the east and centre of the county we find a close network of narrow , winding lanes , wandering from hamlet to hamlet and farm to farm , churches standing alone , isolated houses dotted all over the map , many of them called Hall or Old Hall — significant names . |
| 21 | I suppose they saw their company name blazoned all over the media . |
| 22 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 23 | The record shows that it happened all over the country . |
| 24 | ‘ When the tram passed Springfield Park , you know , by Alder Hey Hospital , I could see trenches dug all over the park . |
| 25 | Nails bit his tongue and slithered all over the place . |
| 26 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 27 | He walked all over the city , looking for windswept gateways and corridors with notice-boards in them . |
| 28 | The man calmly walked all over the child 's body with his heavy boots , and left her screaming on the ground . |
| 29 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 30 | Geoffrey Wilkinson 's deputy was Peter Bardon who joined the RAF soon after the Second World War and served all over the world , particularly in the Far East . |