Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [vb pp] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 21 years the British state has developed a range of counter-insurgency techniques which have been exported all over the world : ‘ special units ’ such as the SAS , sectarian shoot-to-kill squads , political laws , special courts , media censorship and new styles of torture which leave no mark . |
| 2 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 3 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 4 | oh , right oh then , she said it 's been done all over the country |
| 5 | ‘ Apparently it 's been splashed all over the Standard this evening . |
| 6 | His predecessor in the position commented : " He 's been dragged all over the company . |