Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] all over the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 2 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 3 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 4 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 5 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 6 | ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place . |
| 7 | Seems to be wandering about all over the place ! |
| 8 | There 's loads of new garages going in all over the place . |
| 9 | Some of them have got arms going off all over the place . |
| 10 | No we 're not all rushing off all over the place although the men and s some of the women you know we have gone off and they still I mean the men were in South Wales last week . |
| 11 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |
| 12 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 13 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 14 | ‘ That old geyser rushing about all over the place , trying to stop people dancing . ’ |
| 15 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 16 | ’ Its noisy and there 's always loads of equipmenjt lying about all over the place , but it 's great fun . ’ |
| 17 | The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place . |
| 18 | Volvo seem to be moving out all over the place . |
| 19 | ‘ However , ’ Don Mini continued , still addressing Little Billy , ‘ you can not go flying around all over the place on Swan 's back in full daylight . |
| 20 | Nobody knew where anyone was , and there were rumours flying about all over the place . |
| 21 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 22 | Critics always say his work 's ‘ austere ’ or ‘ puritanical ’ because he likes bare raked stages and theatres with their brickwork sticking out all over the place and no props . |
| 23 | The Interflora boom and Smiths devotees were sprouting up all over the place with their obnoxious shirts and silly haircuts . |
| 24 | All the ink was all over his shirt , it was coming out all over the place . |
| 25 | When the bell was sounded , people were running around all over the place , checking gates and doors . |
| 26 | For a highly fashion-conscious teenage magazine , perhaps , it becomes the norm to have the type dancing about all over the place , with grotesque or perversely distorted images perceived as ‘ up-to-date ’ and a more sober or considered treatment considered as old-fashioned as flared trousers and kipper ties . ’ |
| 27 | Funny that the kids are so quiet , usually after a day cooped up in there they 're jumping around all over the place . |
| 28 | But her pulses were jumping around all over the place . |
| 29 | Then there were new Switchboards springing up all over the place , sometimes with more enthusiasm than resources and occasionally with decidedly dubious intent or policy . |
| 30 | Since no self-respecting modern cookbook leaves herbs out of its recipes , since courses in herbal medicine are springing up all over the place , and since cosmetics which rely on plants are taking the place of the synthetic beauty treatments what , one might ask , is a herb ? |