Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 2 | I wanted to see you again , but I was dashing all over Europe that week , and I did n't have time to chase you in person , so I thought I 'd say it with flowers . |
| 3 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 4 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 5 | She sang beautifully , but she was shaking all over she was that frightened . ’ |
| 6 | She was drooling all over him |
| 7 | She was smiling all over her face as they crossed the stream , Betty nimbly discovering the stepping-stones and Lydia getting her feet wet . |
| 8 | They were running all over the place . |
| 9 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 10 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 11 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 12 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 13 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 14 | Wayne number two was sitting — or rather , slumped — in the dining alcove of the deck saloon , and he was leaking all over the expensive-looking upholstery . |
| 15 | They could have put him down to graze somewhere and left him there quietly for an hour or two , but certainly yesterday he was running all over the field . |
| 16 | ‘ He was drooling all over you . ’ |
| 17 | He was rolling all over the floor |