Example sentences of "[verb] to be [vb pp] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 2 | You would n't like to be chased all over the place the whole time would you ? |
| 3 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 4 | When you find that your head has n't actually been bitten off and that you can actually speak , join one of the local societies whose activities are bound to be plastered all over your library 's noticeboard . |
| 5 | Meetings began to be held all over the West Country in village halls and school gyms to debate the issues . |
| 6 | and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ? |
| 7 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
| 8 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |