Example sentences of "[verb] about all over the place " in BNC.

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1 Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached .
2 And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either .
3 ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place .
4 Seems to be wandering about all over the place !
5 He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons .
6 ‘ That old geyser rushing about all over the place , trying to stop people dancing . ’
7 The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton .
8 ’ Its noisy and there 's always loads of equipmenjt lying about all over the place , but it 's great fun . ’
9 They showed a thick scattering of settlement , of cottages and small farmhouses dotted about all over the place , and a corresponding splitting up of fields into small crofts and paddocks .
10 Nobody knew where anyone was , and there were rumours flying about all over the place .
11 For a highly fashion-conscious teenage magazine , perhaps , it becomes the norm to have the type dancing about all over the place , with grotesque or perversely distorted images perceived as ‘ up-to-date ’ and a more sober or considered treatment considered as old-fashioned as flared trousers and kipper ties . ’
12 ‘ … ridiculous balloons floating about all over the place … ‘
13 Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers .
14 The movement of the stylus is also scaled to the current magnification so the picture does n't leap about all over the place .
15 Social Security Ministers are ducking about all over the place .
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