Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 2 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 3 | Her work has taken her all over the world . |
| 4 | ‘ My job as an engineer has taken me all over the world , ’ says Bob , who lives in Kirkdale and now works for GEC . |
| 5 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 6 | He plans to release it all over the Far East as well as Britain , and said : ‘ It will sell like hot cakes . ’ |
| 7 | Max said there 'd have been buckets of blood , and if someone 's going to get it all over a suit , or a dress … |
| 8 | When I finish putting them all round the bed , it looks real nice . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 10 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 11 | Thought we 'd dig it all up and move move it all over the place wo n't we ? |
| 12 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 13 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 14 | No , but they 've had 'em all over the country |
| 15 | Fernando had driven her all over the island . |
| 16 | All went well until RAF Benson had chased him all round the sky and their MATZ before issuing their not unusual request to ‘ resume your own navigation ’ leaving him totally lost , heading into a nasty and unforecast rainstorm and trying to track into the White Waltham entry lane using cross-cuts on the single VOR . |
| 17 | Yes I have to carry them all over the place . |
| 18 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 19 | Rush and Hughes have done it all over the years . |
| 20 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 21 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |