Example sentences of "[noun] all [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 2 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 3 | I told Big Ben all about the hijackers , Danny being in the refrigeration unit and how Jean and I were following them . |
| 4 | Chief Supt John Nesbit of South Yorkshire police , in charge of the operation , said : ‘ This April afternoon has produced winners all round the fans , British football , Hillsborough stadium and the South Yorkshire police . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The handsome parquet flooring had been rewaxed , the girandoles around the walls had been set with pure wax candles purchased from an ecclesiastical suppliers in Hounslow , elaborate arrangements of flowers graced gilded stands all around the walls . |
| 7 | Using a brush dipped lightly in purple food colouring ( mixed with a little water for lighter shades ) , colour the windows dark purple and tint the bricks all over the towers different shades of lavender . |
| 8 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 9 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 10 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |
| 11 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 12 | This can be avoided , however , by ensuring plenty of cross ventilation in the roof all round the eaves and at the gable ends by means of visible gaps , air bricks or ventilators . |
| 13 | No , you could n't throw yourself off , folks must have done it too often , they 'd put massive fencing all along the sides . |
| 14 | She says you could hear Canon Wheeler all down the stairs . ’ |
| 15 | He revels in the memory of it , making it froth and lather all round the alleys and back-yards of youth very nearly up to the roof-tops . |
| 16 | Very few people are known to have been killed directly by the explosions , great though they were , but no less than 36,000 died when the tsunamis ripped over low-lying areas all along the coasts , overwhelming towns and villages . |
| 17 | In a few seconds the fuse caught , and after about ten seconds the mass of flame blew up and out , throwing something black and smoking twenty metres or more into the late-afternoon air and scattering pieces all over the Grounds . |
| 18 | Escaping into the downstairs loo , which had photographs of Drew in various polo teams all over the walls , Daisy repaired her pink , shiny face . |
| 19 | Then there was water all over the stairs and she 'd yelled ‘ Get me to the hospital ’ . |
| 20 | We arrived after dark in a major city driving on roads that were tarmacked in places with workers going home from work milling all over the roads with not a street light to be seen ! |
| 21 | ‘ Which they wo n't now they 've got Micky 's name all over the posters . ’ |
| 22 | The tank has green hairy algae all over the rocks , heaterstat , gravel and glass . |
| 23 | The owner has planted trees all around the ponds which will conceal them from the roads so to me that ca n't be a problem . |
| 24 | The owner has planted trees all around the ponds which will conceal them from the roads so to me that ca n't be a problem . |
| 25 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 26 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 27 | The woman in the shop that sold antique clothes was already busy with a customer who was after a white crepe de Chine 1920s dress that had gold sequins in thick crusty-looking roses all round the hips . |
| 28 | No those posters all over the boards and there was head . |
| 29 | She was now in a long , dark room with doors all round the walls , and she could not see the White Rabbit anywhere . |