Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] all over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 2 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 3 | Anyway , pretty soon half the law in town are crawling all over the street . |
| 4 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 5 | By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck . |
| 6 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 7 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 8 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 11 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 12 | Silence was descending all over the city . |
| 13 | Beth had a mind to go after him , but then Cissie called out , ‘ I 'm cold , and my hair 's dripping all over the place . |
| 14 | The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . |
| 15 | The truck was skidding all over the autobahn , skating over the ice-rink surface . |