Example sentences of "[pron] were [vb pp] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor have the Government responded to reports in Conservative newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times which were apparently augmented by evidence brought back from Iraq by United Nations inspectors , and the details of which were plastered all over those newspapers . |
| 2 | From the 500 women who were questioned all over England and Scotland the following facts emerged : |
| 3 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 4 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 5 | " We were accepted all over that year , " Bland said . |
| 6 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
| 7 | They were made all over Europe and yielded the papacy an annual payment ( often of an ounce of gold ) from each house . |
| 8 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 9 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 10 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 11 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |