Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your eyes were darting all over me , you could barely speak , your face was burning up with heat … ’ |
| 2 | A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us . |
| 3 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
| 4 | During the engagement A.A. bursts were exploding all round me , my port plane received a near miss which made a large hole and spattered the aircraft with splinters , which injured my left elbow . ’ |
| 5 | Jesus was aware of her touch even though the crowd were pressing all around him . |
| 6 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 7 | Men were rushing all around us with buckets of sand . |
| 8 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 9 | Things were moving all over her . |
| 10 | By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 12 | They were running all over the place . |
| 13 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 14 | Tears were running all over her face . |
| 15 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 16 | As Taff and I crouched in our trenches eating our afternoon meal and trying very hard to ignore the clouds of mosquitoes that were buzzing all around us , I looked at Taff . |
| 17 | were jumping all over the place and the action moved |
| 18 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 19 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 20 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 21 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 22 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 23 | ‘ The letters also show that , at the end , Elvis knew what was happening all around him — that he was being used by a lot of people . |
| 24 | She turned her attention to what was happening all around them , the laughter , the gossip , the spontaneous singing of a Rossini aria . |
| 25 | The conversation was dying all around her as she looked in the direction that had been indicated . |
| 26 | Tommy was climbing all over it ! |
| 27 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 28 | ‘ There were none left , ’ he protested but Mum had moved on and Linda Paterson was grinning all over her face . |
| 29 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 30 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |