Example sentences of "[vb past] all [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material draped all round the walls and swords and things hanging on them . |
| 2 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 3 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 4 | Mrs Calzini spent £2,000 on phone calls , drove all round the country and took out a quarter page advert in the Horse and Hound magazine . |
| 5 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 6 | The Glosters served all over the world and we sample life in India during the 1930s . |
| 7 | The spider affair as it was called went all over the school before the day was out , it caused a great deal of laughter . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It went all round the room and had ten different colours in it . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and he looked all round the room and that and then |
| 14 | The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it . |
| 15 | Their front three drifted all over the place and were hard to pick up . |
| 16 | During a healing session , scads of reddish-brown aromatic powder ( ‘ just like savoury mixed spice ’ , says Boltwood prosaically ) , suddenly appeared from his fingertips , and sprayed all over the stage and the people sitting nearby . |
| 17 | He left the bathroom in a terrible mess , with water slopped all over the floor and the towel sopping . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One day , an American guest became a bit too enthusiastic , aimed all over the place and ended up peppering several others , I believe . |
| 20 | The next morning a mysterious piece of graffiti — the word ‘ quiz ’ — appeared all over the pavements and buildings of the city . |
| 21 | Later , as the day 's heat faded into balminess and sunset streaked the sky with glorious shades of pink and gold , Ashley searched all around the house and up and down the drive , but the delivery seemed to have vanished . |
| 22 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 23 | there , there , there be fighting and shoving and pushing for the power and then it says there that it will look as though the , the north king will take all over , all over the what , what spread all over the earth and then it says gradually he will go right back to his ho go home , gradually will be stepping back , right back to his home and there 's going to be no helper for him |
| 24 | She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village . |