Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] all over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 2 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 3 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 4 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 5 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 6 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 7 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
| 8 | But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ . |
| 9 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |