Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] all over the " in BNC.

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1 The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place .
2 Needless to say I was not allowed to forget this incident and cartoons appeared all over the ship .
3 The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country .
4 She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform .
5 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 .
6 And lights flickering all over the prison .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 do the many cables from the computers and printers trail all over the place , or are they safely hidden inside trunking ?
9 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 .
10 There was brickwork and glass flying all over the place .
11 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 .
12 ‘ There 's absolutely no one there but tourists swarming all over the place . ’
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