Example sentences of "all [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be all round the place in no time . ’ |
| 2 | But besides that , we 've collected half a dozen more , various but his , from all round the place . |
| 3 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
| 4 | As well as that there were Leeds fans everyf*ckinwhere , all round the place it seemed . |
| 5 | And I 've been all round the place . |
| 6 | He used to find them all round the place ! |
| 7 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 8 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 9 | Then people rolling around all over the place . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 11 | All over the place , not only at the fête , a psychic infection rages and erupts in small ugly-comic jests — ‘ They put a dead cat in my trunk ’ — but also in affronts to the human self as massive and immemorial as those Homer describes . |
| 12 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 13 | Of course , the well-groomed head of modern Bruges pops up all over the place to remind you that this is not really a medieval theme park at all . |
| 14 | I hit it all over the place . |
| 15 | Commandos were digging in all over the place . |
| 16 | He poked his head out almost immediately and exclaimed , ‘ direct hit on the shithouse — shit all over the place … that 's all we need ! ’ |
| 17 | They seemed to take everything so calmly , the shelling , the dead animals lying around , British soldiers all over the place . |
| 18 | The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place . |
| 19 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 20 | There were lumps and bumps all over the place , accompanied by intense itching . |
| 21 | If you are after a session , do n't waste your time sending tapes and records all over the place . |
| 22 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 23 | And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face . |
| 24 | People are coming from all over the place , and the flat … . ’ she held out her arms . |
| 25 | You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique . |
| 26 | ‘ They seed all over the place and have the morals of tom cats , so are found in every flower bed , skulking behind hedges , peering round gate posts , naturalising in any open space . |
| 27 | ‘ She was a lively piece , from what I hear — flying her kite all over the place . |
| 28 | You can go all over the place . |
| 29 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 30 | Statistics are all over the place . |