Example sentences of "[vb pp] all over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the war it had been a dangerous neighbour , but no bomb had fallen on it , although fire-bombs had spattered all over Mouncy Street and Decimus Street . |
| 2 | Vaulting was being developed all over Europe by the later eleventh century , but in Italy the wooden roof and/or the domical covering were the usual method . |
| 3 | A sigh of relief could be heard all over Scotland . |
| 4 | ‘ We can be heard all over Donegal and Northern Ireland , and now we 're getting fan letters from the west coast of Scotland . |
| 5 | Parts of the outside walls curved in and out like waves of stone , altar and stained-glass windows were awe-inspiring in gold and blue , and the chimes from the clock could be heard all over town , even in my stationside boarding house . |
| 6 | Dashing new treatments of the Savoy operas have been cheered all over Britain , and the company 's current tour has seen an even greater departure from tradition . |
| 7 | Inside , it is decorated all over walls and vault with biblical scenes , the figure groups and panels separated by arabesque banding . |
| 8 | Now , as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10 , the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground , adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe . |
| 9 | Catalonia had possessed only a small section of a textile industry scattered all over Spain but it was round Barcelona that the cotton factory made its appearance . |
| 10 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 11 | Robert Wilkinson 25 , of Thornton Street , Hartlepool admitted two charges of deception and asked for 40 more involving bouncing cheques worth £4,000 and committed all over Cleveland and Durham to be taken into consideration . |
| 12 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 13 | After 1313 all works produced by Parisian goldsmiths and enamellers bore a hallmark depicting a fleur-de-lis within a lozenge and these objects were disseminated all over Europe , not least to England . |
| 14 | Arrests were made all over London . |
| 15 | They were made all over Europe and yielded the papacy an annual payment ( often of an ounce of gold ) from each house . |
| 16 | Bourbon is made all over Kentucky , although there are no distilleries in Bourbon County itself . |
| 17 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
| 18 | Small wonder that the presence of Guinness is felt all over Ireland ; for Guinness is fully interwoven in the fabric of Irish life , from the farmers who grow the barley to the many artists , musicians and sports people who enjoy the benefits of Guinness 's involvement in over 100 festivals and cultural events around Ireland each year . |
| 19 | By the middle of the century chamber cantatas were being written all over Italy ; the composers were as numerous as the madrigalists of the previous century . |
| 20 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 21 | Tower mills can be seen all over Britain , but south-east England houses more wooden smock mills . |
| 22 | A lovely villa , set in beautiful gardens amidst vineyards it was once the home of the della Robbias , the family of renaissance artists , famous for their glazed ‘ terracotta ’ work , and whose masterpieces are to be admired all over Florence 's churches and galleries — most notably the lovely cherubs which grace the foundling hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata . |
| 23 | Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century German arms and armour , however , were extensively sold all over Europe . |
| 24 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 25 | Brighton set a pace which was copied all over Britain , usually , as in Kent at Margate , with more popular results . |
| 26 | Republic Day in January is celebrated all over India and in the grandest style ! |
| 27 | Die Entführung was being performed all over Austria and Germany , and , according to Leopold , the Berlin papers were advertising the new quartets , saying that Mozart 's name alone was sufficient to recommend them to the public : no other guarantee of quality was needed . |
| 28 | English parchment was needed all over Europe , whilst in England French wines would always be sold . |
| 29 | The effects of the Chernobyl radiation leak were measured all over Europe , 32 people died as a result of fighting the fire that occurred , and thousands more are expected to develop cancers as a result of radioactive contamination . |
| 30 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |