Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 2 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 3 | I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place . |
| 4 | Her lines were all over the place tonight . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They were all over the place , Dad said . |
| 6 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 7 | Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence . |
| 8 | She said erm her marks were all over the place . |
| 9 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 10 | The earth — it was all over the place — as if something had broken through . |
| 11 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 12 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 13 | It was all over the place . |
| 14 | It was all over the place . |
| 15 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 16 | Left was away from the place the Mobile had last seen him , away from Neptune Court . |
| 17 | ‘ He was always about the place . |
| 18 | I was still in a place washed by the waters which had thundered off Tonga , where there was a king with a nation of Brobdingnagian subjects , a million pigs and a tradition of wearing clothes made of pandanus leaves and coconut string . |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , she was out of the place before she had time to dry her crocodile tears ! |
| 20 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |