Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] all [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 2 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 3 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 4 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seemed that she could not be anywhere near Rourke without her emotions erupting all over the place . |
| 8 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 9 | The graphics are stunning , with small but fast-moving sprites zipping all around the shop . |
| 10 | The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding . |
| 11 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 12 | The English heritage is rich and , of these buildings standing all over the country , many retain a considerable Romanesque portion . |
| 13 | Schoolkids are the latest target in a sales ploy that has set tills ringing all over the country . |
| 14 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 15 | There 'll be bombs popping all over the place . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | According to Anwar , Jamila would become pregnant immediately , and soon there 'd be little Anwars running all over the place . |
| 18 | And lights flickering all over the prison . |
| 19 | I do n't like these sockets to be on the front , because it means cables trailing all over the amp ( and there 's so much empty space at the rear ) , although it does save having to crawl around the back before and after the gig . |
| 20 | Damage is extensive on both the dentine and the enamel , some teeth having all of the enamel removed , leaving a narrow and eroded dentine core , while others also have much of the dentine removed so that the edges of the dentine , or of the enamel if it still remains , collapses in on itself ( Fig. 3.22 O ) . |
| 21 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's absolutely no one there but tourists swarming all over the place . ’ |
| 23 | The last few years have seen unauthorised clothes going all round the world . |
| 24 | Doors opening all over the place . |
| 25 | On the one hand , they did not want working class hooligans swarming all over the country causing mayhem . |
| 26 | It would be nice to breed dogs , she thought , and imagined setters running all over the garden , like the dalmatians in The One Hundred and One Dalmatians . |