Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city .
2 With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments .
3 I recall as a boy watching in admiration as Mr. Harry Martin , the signwriter wrote The Brewery Tap all along the front of the building , some thirty feet above street level .
4 We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor .
5 So you 're good at hey that 's good because some people ca n't go their F goes all over the place .
6 It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings .
7 Ample free car parking all around the hotel .
8 Heads turned all along the quiet Kensington street .
9 And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful .
10 Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men .
11 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 .
12 Like all children , his mind jumps all over the place .
13 But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place .
14 The warning came after a meeting of Ards Borough Council last week in which Ulster Unionist Ronnie Ferguson put forward a motion that the council should offer free collection of waste to the Orange Order , which has halls dotted all over the borough .
15 bit this traffic because there 's snow falling all over the county there are going to be people erm in all sorts of er er problems .
16 It really wo n't do to talk airily about businessmen and business women as if emergency pools of these super-executives exist all over the country , ready to plug the numerous gaps left by the incompetence of Noddy and know-nothing councils that are councillors and magistrates .
17 In the stillness there was the buzz of bees , bird sound — royal bluebirds darted all around the mountain — the hum of the Urubamba twisting far below .
18 He took a deep breath , then slammed the piano lid down so hard the notes reverberated all round the theatre .
19 They had been inside no more than thirty seconds , Bienvida trembling all over the way she did from terror and excitement , when they heard the voices of Peter , Tom and Alice , as these three people crossed the hall and went upstairs together .
20 By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau .
21 ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’
22 Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country .
23 Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed .
24 What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ?
25 Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia .
26 When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor .
27 Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford .
28 In Munich , the Stalingrad disaster prompted the group of students who , largely inspired by moral and religious idealism , had the previous year formed the ‘ White Rose ’ movement and circulated anti-Nazi leaflets in Munich University , to stage a suicidally brave public demonstration of their detestation for Hitler and Nazism in a defiant manifesto displayed all over the university buildings :
29 How often is that sad refrain heard all over the English-speaking world !
30 News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign .
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