Example sentences of "spread all over the " in BNC.

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1 He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow .
2 By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau .
3 ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed .
4 Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity .
5 Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia .
6 He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world .
7 All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape .
8 The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way .
9 ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers .
10 Once established , the pattern could spread all over the body , until it reached the condition we know today .
11 It was usually something quite silly and trivial , like leaving the taps running in the bath huts or over-stuffing the dustbins so that mess and litter was spread all over the ground , but sometimes someone 's carelessness resulted in the whole inadequate drainage system being completely overloaded and clogged up .
12 At the same time , the company 's interests had spread all over the world , far beyond the milk-round set up by his father .
13 They 're spread all over the country , which is why I have to travel so much and why the Consulate had difficulty tracing me . ’
14 For years before his death rumours had spread all over the Dales that put his rude good health and longevity to dealings with the Devil and pointed to his long canine teeth as evidence of vampirism .
15 ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins .
16 Jesus ' fame had spread all over the region ; Matthew , as a man in the centre of the financial world of that place must have heard of Jesus already .
17 Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk , along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests .
18 Cherry was spread all over the chaise longue , looking a little more or less natural in his crepe-de-Walthamstow gown .
19 But , but , genes themselves are spread all over the perimeter , so you might well find that er genes there 's more of them
20 We 've got 37,000 members who are spread all over the country .
21 And out you 'll go , take it from me , especially after the fiasco you made of the press conference and the results of it spread all over the papers this morning ! ’
22 Eventually the Herakleophorbia spread all over the world .
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
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