Example sentences of "[noun] all over the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 6 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Escaping into the downstairs loo , which had photographs of Drew in various polo teams all over the walls , Daisy repaired her pink , shiny face . |
| 10 | Then there was water all over the stairs and she 'd yelled ‘ Get me to the hospital ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ Which they wo n't now they 've got Micky 's name all over the posters . ’ |
| 13 | The tank has green hairy algae all over the rocks , heaterstat , gravel and glass . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No those posters all over the boards and there was head . |