Example sentences of "they [was/were] all [prep] " 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 | Says a pal : ‘ They were all over each other like a pair of love-struck teenagers . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They were all over me like a bad rash ’ , she told her friends . |
| 5 | They were all over the walls and ceiling . |
| 6 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 7 | They were all over him with friendly jokey advice . |
| 8 | ‘ They were all over the place , Dad said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 11 | and it soft it would n't soften up , it stayed hard and they were all over garden . |
| 12 | And they were all as one and worshipped they one and the same . |
| 13 | At once they were all around her , perching up on their hindlegs like scrawny otters in black leather and chrome earbands . |
| 14 | The nets , strangely , did n't produce many fish ( I reckon they were all round our boat ) and they were mostly leatherjackets . |
| 15 | You know , they were all round it just before , while you were drawing . |
| 16 | ‘ Specially if they was all over 'im when they was doin' 'im over . |
| 17 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 18 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |