Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say I was not allowed to forget this incident and cartoons appeared all over the ship . |
| 2 | The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country . |
| 3 | She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform . |
| 4 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 5 | And lights flickering all over the prison . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 7 | do the many cables from the computers and printers trail all over the place , or are they safely hidden inside trunking ? |
| 8 | Parenthood brings out the worst , it seemed to him ; vicarious ambitions and frustrations raged all over the lawns and games fields of Croxford House on sports day . |
| 9 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 10 | With several well-attended Irish women 's conferences behind us , a well-resourced and staffed Irish Women 's Centre , many autonomous groups and campaigns operating all over London and in other parts of England , I will say with strength and pride that Irish women , whether heterosexual or lesbian , from Anne Devlin to Bernadette , remain the ‘ unmanageable revolutionaires ’ they/we have always been . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's absolutely no one there but tourists swarming all over the place . ’ |