Example sentences of "[prep] all [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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1 | Consider , for instance , the evoked meaning of an expression such as all over the place ( paragraph 1 ) , or the impact of an unusual collocation such as lives in a rage ( paragraph 4 ) ; how well do these expressions translate into your target language ? |
2 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
3 | I was really annoyed last night , I was getting really There was all this like down tuning and up tuning like all over the place That looks like Bart Simpson 's dad |
4 | There are bits in all over the place . |
5 | There are a whole lot of players who can go out there and knock balls in all over the place , score wonderful great big one four sevens and centuries and things of this nature , but what makes the , the good player an excellent player , is the player who can do it on the big occasion . |
6 | People are coming from all over the place , and the flat … . ’ she held out her arms . |
7 | The gypsies gathered at the horse fair came from all over the place so he could be anywhere after that . |
8 | If so , a bacterial chromosome would resemble a professional football team , whose players have been transferred into the club from all over the place . |
9 | Finally , I put in the hair that protrudes from all over the place on elephants . |
10 | It seemed like when I heard a saxophone player like Sonny Rollins the sound seemed to come from all over the place — it did n't come from this one little spot . |
11 | Finally , I put in the hair that protrudes from all over the place on elephants . |
12 | ‘ We have had calls from all over the place . |
13 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
14 | They arrived from all over the place , from the big houses locally to as far away as London . |
15 | Workers flocked to Middlesborough from all over the place ; according to the 1871 census nearly half the town 's population were born outside Yorkshire . |
16 | The census returns show that when people left London they usually moved only short distances but that migrants into London came from all over the place . |
17 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
18 | ‘ The lads still at the club are coming from all over the place to turn out for us , and are happy just to play the game . |
19 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
20 | But besides that , we 've collected half a dozen more , various but his , from all round the place . |
21 | Would of been right , you know would have been a nightmare , expected to all over the place . |