Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] all over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room .
2 Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools .
3 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
4 Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually .
5 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
6 Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change .
7 We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me .
8 They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 .
9 Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day .
10 Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands .
11 Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early .
12 By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world .
13 The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place .
14 ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’
15 Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait .
16 They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations .
17 Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch .
18 Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter .
19 ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark .
20 They were running all over the place .
21 Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling .
22 You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf .
23 were jumping all over the place and the action moved
24 Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk , along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests .
25 ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins .
26 Less pure grades of graphite were discovered all over the world but none had the structure of the Borrowdale type .
27 As a result the British Zeta results were splashed all over the world 's newspapers ( New Scientist , 20 January , p 166 ) .
28 The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips .
29 By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 .
30 He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world .
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