Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's dropped a tin of paint all over her trainers . |
| 2 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 3 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 4 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 5 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 6 | To some extent , little or much , the Created God has been in course of production all over the world for all time . |
| 7 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 8 | The event was held in the school library and messages of hope were written to prisoners of conscience all over the world . |
| 9 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 11 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 12 | There is going to be a serious shortage of food all over the world during the next year . |
| 13 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 14 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 15 | This Easter we have seen the groundswell of demand all over the world that the arms race be brought to a standstill . |
| 16 | Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law . |
| 17 | The aim of World in Harmony is to help people in need all over the world , often by channelling huge agricultural surpluses , to those in need . |
| 18 | Oxydol won out , and the so-called soap opera that was used to sell it gave its name to a genre , massively reinforced by its wholesale adoption by television all over the world since the 1950s . |
| 19 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 20 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 21 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 22 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 23 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 24 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 25 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 26 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 27 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 28 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 29 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 30 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |