Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 2 | The schools springing up all over France in the twelfth century probably had a formative influence on the administrators , though this can rarely be proved . |
| 3 | The wind-chill factor was obvious , but the wind-skill factor was non-existent and a series of nasty vendettas sprung up all over the pitch . |
| 4 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 5 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 6 | They showed a thick scattering of settlement , of cottages and small farmhouses dotted about all over the place , and a corresponding splitting up of fields into small crofts and paddocks . |
| 7 | The targets were frequently altered , bomb loads changed , keeping the armourers constantly on the run with bombs lying about all over the field . |
| 8 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 9 | There 's loads of new garages going in all over the place . |
| 10 | They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity . |
| 11 | If Stalin 's architectural taste was the chief influence on the new buildings going up all over Bucharest , Ceauşescu 's still more ambitious scheme to ‘ systematize ’ the rural life of Romania , announced in March 1988 , owed more to Stalin 's successor , Nikita Khruschev , and even to Karl Marx himself . |
| 12 | following the Robbins Committee Report in 1963 new universities sprang up all over the country and tertiary education in general was in a state of unexampled euphoria . |
| 13 | It looks as though you 've got little brown insects crawling about all over you . |
| 14 | ‘ … ridiculous balloons floating about all over the place … ‘ |
| 15 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 16 | Lights came on all over the Ship . |
| 17 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 18 | It went up in flames as the lights went out all over Europe . |
| 19 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 20 | There are needles sticking out all over him . |
| 21 | We 've got heathers , bushes and trees springing up all over the place . |
| 22 | Some of them have got arms going off all over the place . |
| 23 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 24 | Then there were new Switchboards springing up all over the place , sometimes with more enthusiasm than resources and occasionally with decidedly dubious intent or policy . |
| 25 | For the nation as a whole , the visible effect was a huge rise in unemployment and a vast drop in the gross domestic product , with factories , mills , and pits closing down all over the country . |
| 26 | It started to rain again , a light drizzle that caused umbrellas to pop up all over the place . |
| 27 | In the end , Hoveyda was tried by a revolutionary court and executed , but the story of the succession of prime ministers continued , with disturbances breaking out all over the country , up on the Caspian as well as in the major centres . |
| 28 | With frontier restrictions coming down all over Europe in 1992 , they fear the sort of epidemic that has been sweeping the rest of the continent . |
| 29 | Much of this is undoubtedly true but perhaps not true enough to justify the industries springing up all over the country offering simplistic solutions like food supplements and gymnasia . |
| 30 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |