Example sentences of "were [vb pp] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 2 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 3 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 4 | He loved Meli so much his ashes were scattered all over her grave |
| 5 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 6 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 7 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 8 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 13 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 14 | He felt guilty thoughts were written all over his face . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " We were accepted all over that year , " Bland said . |
| 17 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 18 | Arrests were made all over London . |
| 19 | They were made all over Europe and yielded the papacy an annual payment ( often of an ounce of gold ) from each house . |
| 20 | Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early . |
| 21 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Girls and women of every colour , creed , shape and size were sprawled all over them . |
| 24 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 25 | Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait . |
| 26 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 27 | This was naturally continued and copies were distributed all over India , sent to all publicity agencies and taken into Burma . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch . |
| 29 | Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter . |
| 30 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |