Example sentences of "be all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't be so flamin' cheeky , ’ said Otley , ‘ we 've been all over the place looking for you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 've been all over the North , so I 'm leaving it this time . ’ |
| 4 | Most of my friends have n't been outside Australia , let alone been all over the world . |
| 5 | Your Uncle Jack would have been all over him . ’ |
| 6 | By that I mean book-signing sessions — I 've been all over the place , from Darlington and Beverley in the North , to as far as Nottingham in the South , and met some wonderful people — and literary luncheons , plus what I suppose you could call ‘ personal appearances ’ at all kinds of functions . |
| 7 | I 've been all over the moors looking for you ! |
| 8 | Josephine , Cynthia , and Agnes had been all over the place . |
| 9 | As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong . |
| 10 | It 's been all over the Pink Paper . |
| 11 | We 've been all over the place but Blackpool 's my favourite . |
| 12 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 13 | I 've been all over England , Wales and Scotland too — though not Northern Ireland … |
| 14 | She 'd been all over the Far East |
| 15 | Ben 's been all over the world since then |
| 16 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 17 | And we 've been all over the place have n't we Arthur . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion . |
| 20 | Statistics are all over the place . |
| 21 | And the eggs are all over the place . |
| 22 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 23 | ITN 's political match-summariser says that ‘ individually the polls are all over the place , but put them all together and you get a message you can trust ’ — not a science graduate , presumably . |
| 24 | So your capillaries are all over the place . |
| 25 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 26 | ‘ My dear de Craon , my troops are all over it . ’ |
| 27 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 28 | His fingerprints are all over the car . |
| 29 | ‘ The police are all over the place . |
| 30 | Staff here are all over the moon . |