Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
2 I walked all round the area to check out the competition , and the nearest was streets away .
3 I smelt fresh cigar smoke and I called out like you normally would to anybody there and no er reply so I searched all round the building , not a soul in sight but there was this distinct smell of cigar smoke and my colleague er Mr Martin he had an experience er a year or two after he joined us .
4 What 's worse … when I travelled all over the lane ,
5 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 .
6 She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune .
7 She laughed all over the place at this .
8 But her best-known theatre role in the city has to be as Shirley Valentine , the acclaimed Willy Russell play that she took all over the country four years ago .
9 Erm you look fairly fit thank you very much , you know , very sweet of you dear , erm tt and I think to , to carry on with the regards to well how much do you earn you went all around the houses , do n't apologize and say well I have to ask you because , you know , , you know you need to know
10 She looked all round the room angrily .
11 At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin .
12 She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village .
13 On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester .
14 I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work .
15 So we went all over the place .
16 And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know
17 Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see
18 And we actually then went down and we looked all over the place and there are quite a number of pallets that in fact are not properly stacked .
19 We canvassed all round the village you know , the Guild members did and to get people to take this paper .
20 selection of them went all over the world collecting trees .
21 They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared .
22 Good morning ladies and gentlemen pshoow and they , they went all over the place .
23 Later on they went all over the house , assessing what they might be able to sell , finding out just what Adam 's inheritance amounted to .
24 They looked all over the state .
25 The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it .
26 Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important .
27 They travelled all over the countryside asking farmers if they could buy the rustic doors that were lying in the mud at the back of the barn .
28 The record shows that it happened all over the country .
29 He walked all over the city , looking for windswept gateways and corridors with notice-boards in them .
30 He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful !
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