Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | From April 3–12 , the Tidy Britain Group are inviting people all over the country to take part in the National Spring Clean 1992 . |
| 2 | The three principal features in this work are panelled decoration all over the building , in windows , wall and buttress alike , an increasing area of window space and consequently development of the flying buttress ( much later than in France ) and roofing by means of the fan vault . |
| 3 | But suddenly there was something of a puff of smoke and I found myself standing all alone in the alleyway with what might well be metaphorical egg all over my kisser . |
| 4 | At the end of the nineteen twenties the policy from Moscow , not just to the Chinese Communist Party but actually to communist parties all over the world swings dramatically to the left and Stalin is arguing that there 's , there are going to be revolutionary explosions all over the world the Communist Party must forge its own path , it must put itself at the head of these struggles , it must give a lead to the masses by launching insurrections and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | There were empty stations all over the region . |
| 6 | ‘ There were deep scratches all over her face . |
| 7 | In the seventies , there were military dictatorships all over Latin America . |
| 8 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 9 | Think , instead , of a large population in which there is not much movement , so that individuals tend to resemble their immediate neighbours more than their more distant neighbours , even though there is continuous interbreeding all over the whole area . |
| 10 | There are holy wells all over Ireland and they do at times attract strange practices , ’ he said . |
| 11 | and the hydraulic hose on the back of the dustcart broke there was hydraulic fluid all over the |
| 12 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 13 | ‘ There was stale wee all over the floor . |