Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] all over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific . |
| 2 | Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands . |
| 3 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 5 | Parenthood brings out the worst , it seemed to him ; vicarious ambitions and frustrations raged all over the lawns and games fields of Croxford House on sports day . |