Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] all over [art] [noun] " 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 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 10 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early . |
| 13 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 14 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | They were running all over the place . |
| 22 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 23 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 24 | were jumping all over the place and the action moved |
| 25 | Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk , along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests . |
| 26 | ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins . |
| 27 | Less pure grades of graphite were discovered all over the world but none had the structure of the Borrowdale type . |
| 28 | As a result the British Zeta results were splashed all over the world 's newspapers ( New Scientist , 20 January , p 166 ) . |
| 29 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 30 | 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 . |