Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] all over [art] " in BNC.

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1 You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city .
2 With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments .
3 We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor .
4 Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men .
5 But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place .
6 The warning came after a meeting of Ards Borough Council last week in which Ulster Unionist Ronnie Ferguson put forward a motion that the council should offer free collection of waste to the Orange Order , which has halls dotted all over the borough .
7 It really wo n't do to talk airily about businessmen and business women as if emergency pools of these super-executives exist all over the country , ready to plug the numerous gaps left by the incompetence of Noddy and know-nothing councils that are councillors and magistrates .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’
10 Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed .
11 Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia .
12 When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor .
13 Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford .
14 Miss Menzies felt certain it was in the garage at Mr Steen 's Orme Gardens house all over the weekend .
15 With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance .
16 It seemed that she could not be anywhere near Rourke without her emotions erupting all over the place .
17 The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place .
18 In the east and centre of the county we find a close network of narrow , winding lanes , wandering from hamlet to hamlet and farm to farm , churches standing alone , isolated houses dotted all over the map , many of them called Hall or Old Hall — significant names .
19 But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ .
20 There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific .
21 There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers .
22 Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination .
23 The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding .
24 Fishermen scurry all over the seas catching anchovies ; quarrymen have long made a living scraping guano from the bird-rich islands .
25 She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter 's head and pieces flew all over the platform .
26 The Greater London Association for Pre-Retirement ( address on page 154 ) publishes Something Different To Do which lists unusual interests and organisations to contact all over the country .
27 Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place .
28 Needless to say I was not allowed to forget this incident and cartoons appeared all over the ship .
29 The English heritage is rich and , of these buildings standing all over the country , many retain a considerable Romanesque portion .
30 Schoolkids are the latest target in a sales ploy that has set tills ringing all over the country .
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