Example sentences of "[verb] all over the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nearly all rack effects have their connectors at the back and I find it looks very untidy having cables hanging all over the front of an amp . |
| 4 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 5 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 6 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 7 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 8 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 9 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 10 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 11 | ‘ There were people climbing all over the graves with cameras . |
| 12 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili . |
| 14 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 15 | That 's why I take a small telescopic rod , a tiny fixed spool reel and lures all over the world with me . |
| 16 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 17 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 18 | Apples are now grown all over the world from Himachal Pradesh in northern India to small luxury orchards throughout Africa . |
| 19 | People must be hunting all over the country for him . |
| 20 | When will the Prime Minister apologise to the British people for the disgraceful inequities and sheer misery caused all over the country by the poll tax , which he was one of the first people to promote ? |
| 21 | Run all over the board like that . |
| 22 | Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories . |
| 23 | Stephen , you do n't want to leave all over the kitchen like that , it 's really . |
| 24 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , do you think they 'd be nestling all over the roof like a tea-cosy ? |
| 26 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 27 | Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait . |
| 28 | It 's an amazingly heady concoction made from a good old bottle of Gordon 's , or whatever your favourite make happens to be , sloshed all over the fruits of the sloe ( blackthorn ) bush . |
| 29 | Ordinary ones have a heat sensitive stickum on the back , which is likely to run all over the insides of your printer , making for some heavy bills at the least , and , at the worst , ruining your printer . |
| 30 | Before they left the house the boys also urinated all over the murals of Kamala and the Wheel you painted in the top room and smashed the player Ron had built , slashing the recorder with a knife . |