Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] all over [art] " in BNC.

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1 There were bones all over the place .
2 There were pubs all over the place which served perfectly acceptable Sunday lunches .
3 Well as you know , in nineteen eighty one , there were there were troubles all over the country , which seemed to start from problems in Brixton .
4 ‘ Was that why there were policeman all over the road ? ’
5 Although there were stores all over the world , manufacturing and distribution were highly centralized ; most of the products were made in one giant plant .
6 There were mirrors all over the place .
7 At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’
8 He bled … he tried to reach the door … there was blood all over the floor … pints of it .
9 ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets .
10 Mechanic Tommy Murray , 24 , who works in a garage on the corner of the road , said : ‘ There was blood all over the place .
11 He was very dead , and there was blood all over the floor .
12 There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen .
13 When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning .
14 He said ; There was blood all over the floor and rings scattered around .
15 It was rather spectacular really — there was blood all over the place and covering my hand .
16 Then there was water all over the stairs and she 'd yelled ‘ Get me to the hospital ’ .
17 There was paper all over the car park again .
18 There was mud all over the place .
19 During the attack on Wheeler there was pandemonium all over the base , men fought to move the parked aircraft before they were damaged by the air strike .
20 Even gallons of Dettol ca n't mask celestial incense , and try as she might , there was incense all over the floor every bleeding morning .
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