Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] all over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions .
2 Pierre has taught all over the world — next month he 's running a course here at the Lygon Arms Hotel in Broadway .
3 They do most of the damage , knocking on doors , daub writing all over the place .
4 The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way .
5 Victoria de Los Angeles , who has sung all over the world , has had wonderful recording successes with twenty-two complete operas , and forty recital discs , that have together sold over five million records !
6 Football hooliganism is not a particularly new phenomenon , nor is it a peculiarly British problem , it has occurred all over the world .
7 Cos it starts going all over the place .
8 ‘ The same thing that 's happened in Ireland has happened all over the world .
9 Using a small palette knife , spread icing all over the cake .
10 yeah , she says , she says spitting all over the place
11 The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand .
12 You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town .
13 Stephen , you do n't want to leave all over the kitchen like that , it 's really .
14 I do n't want to bleed all over the stairs . ’
15 The spider affair as it was called went all over the school before the day was out , it caused a great deal of laughter .
16 ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili .
17 Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity .
18 He would not allow any Mario-type figure to start jumping all over the dinosaurs . ’
19 The legal adviser helps to negotiate the firm 's contracts ( and may have to travel all over the world in order to do so ) , keeps it right on matters of company law and employment law , pilots takeovers , etc. , and may , on a wider front , advise on what is proper conduct within a system of self-regulation adopted within the industry by means of a Code of Practice .
20 The pots of paint lay splattered all over the carpet .
21 Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ?
22 The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game .
23 ‘ So you 've opted out of the war effort , ’ he greeted her nastily , ‘ to go swanning all over the Pacific ? ’
24 Even this did not make Donald crane his neck forward and start retching all over the table .
25 Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ !
26 He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased .
27 He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh .
28 A group of armed Covenanters , under the command of Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston , East Lothian , had assembled at Rutherglen , and being opposed to Charles , had travelled all over the district , extinguishing the bonfires and stopping the celebrations .
29 Born in 1900 , the same year as the Queen Mother , he had spent twenty-three years at the top , he had travelled all over the world , he had stories and memories of escapades and people and was a colourful raconteur .
30 The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason .
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