Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] all [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doors were opening all along the corridor . |
| 2 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 6 | They were running all over the place . |
| 7 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 8 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 9 | were jumping all over the place and the action moved |
| 10 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 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 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 15 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The truck was skidding all over the autobahn , skating over the ice-rink surface . |
| 18 | Silence was descending all over the city . |
| 19 | He was rolling all over the floor |
| 20 | The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She went up to her bedroom and there it was flooded with golden light , the clouds were rapidly drawing away , almost peeling back in the sky and , not yet quite behind the roofs , a dazzling gold was leaking all round the edges of a lilac cloud . |
| 23 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 24 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |