Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] all over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 2 | The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned . |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine publishers all over the country repricing thousands of books which will end up being too dear to sell . ’ |
| 4 | Springboard , on the other hand , is a personal development programme for all women , not just returners , with a network of trainers who run groups all over the UK . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 6 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 7 | Using the edge of a teaspoon , mark scales all over the body of the dragon , including the neck , head and tail . |
| 8 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 9 | In the ever shrinking , fast-moving world of today , boats , trains , aeroplanes and cars carry travellers all over the globe , either as tourists or in the normal course of their business . |
| 10 | All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows . |
| 11 | The unusually confrontational rhetoric suggests that Mao was perhaps less than correct when , 40 years ago yesterday , he announced to Tiananmen : ‘ The Chinese people have stood up … we have friends all over the world . ’ |
| 12 | We now have friends all over the country and I often think about the elderly disabled chap who would n't accept help to lift his canoe at portages or the young white faced girl who would n't give up though exhausted . |
| 13 | Smith said : ‘ We have players all over the park who can score goals for us . |
| 14 | I had left for Kingston largely dismissive of the anxieties expressed by family and friends , telling them that , after all , women have babies all over the world . |
| 15 | ‘ They have cameras all over the place now . |