Example sentences of "[was/were] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 2 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 3 | The young stars were all over the newspapers and fan magazines , and Nicholson loved to read and hear about their adventures . |
| 4 | A moment later , the contents were all over the floor , and the woman gave a cluck of annoyance . |
| 5 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 6 | I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place . |
| 7 | Religious paintings were all over the walls . |
| 8 | They were all over the walls and ceiling . |
| 9 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 10 | ‘ Could 've been , but nothing to suggest that it was : her prints were all over the car and nobody else 's . ’ |
| 11 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 12 | Her lines were all over the place tonight . ’ |
| 13 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They were all over the place , Dad said . |
| 15 | Then this morning , the police were all over the college again and , by lunchtime , the master knew . |
| 16 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 17 | Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence . |
| 18 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 19 | She said erm her marks were all over the place . |
| 20 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 21 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 22 | The crowd ( as ever ) did Leeds proud , were all around the ground and Im sure helped make it another ‘ home game ’ for the players . |
| 23 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 24 | It was all off the top of my head . |
| 25 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 26 | ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me . |
| 27 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 28 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 29 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 30 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |