Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] all over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 2 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
| 3 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 4 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 5 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 6 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 7 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 8 | They were running all over the place . |
| 9 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 10 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 11 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 12 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 13 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 14 | Wayne number two was sitting — or rather , slumped — in the dining alcove of the deck saloon , and he was leaking all over the expensive-looking upholstery . |
| 15 | They could have put him down to graze somewhere and left him there quietly for an hour or two , but certainly yesterday he was running all over the field . |
| 16 | He was rolling all over the floor |
| 17 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |