Example sentences of "[v-ing] all [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 2 | You just shot up , whizzing all over the place , erratic but really zooming , and that partly compensated for any lack of technique . |
| 3 | And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’ |
| 4 | Nearly all rack effects have their connectors at the back and I find it looks very untidy having cables hanging all over the front of an amp . |
| 5 | At the end of the evening , an African headmaster commented , ‘ If we can multiply this kind of gathering all over the country , our political differences will vanish . ’ |
| 6 | She could feel them now — dangers everywhere — gathering all around the churchyard wall , biding their time until a door should open , just a crack , and let them in . |
| 7 | And he 'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere , Tommy on the wall and they 'd shout Tommy on the wall |
| 8 | He was used to walking all over the city , as if searching , as if dedicated to the act of searching , every single day ; and now he came to The Bar every single night , and did his searching there . |
| 9 | Walking all over the grass that I have n't cut yet . |
| 10 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 12 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 13 | Or you can simply sabotage the thing by coughing loudly and exploding all over the place and then of course they simply ca n't use it . |
| 14 | Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . |
| 15 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 16 | And er the amount of money that 's in the appeal fund , whereas it shows a great feeling of warmth from the general public , I think I do n't I mean there 's people dying all over the world , even at home here in Orkney , there 's people that dying , they do n't receive any great compensation for that . |
| 17 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 18 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 19 | Each part of the company has been asked to look for ways of doing more , with less , and the performance improvements now happening all over the company are starting to feed through to the bottom line . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country . |
| 21 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 22 | That is happening all over the country and the tenants will be required to accept all the costs of repairs . |
| 23 | It 's happening all over the country — not just to me . |
| 24 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 25 | Be aware of what is happening all over the world , but for goodness sake do n't allow the market — by which I mean the City — to guide the destiny of your company . |
| 26 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 27 | Not necessarily the but certainly from below the top it 's happening all over the world , it 's , it 's er upsetting everybody , they do n't know whether they 're coming or going . |
| 28 | Mr McGahon said : ‘ There is a high level of crime in this area , but it is a microcosm of what is happening all over the Republic . |
| 29 | We do n't just need closed circuit T V , we need lighting on all the Park and Ride sites , we need proper heated warm , clean waiting rooms , supervised with a person with a glass window , who can see what 's happening there , who has all the monitoring screens and can look at the closed circuit T V and what 's happening all round the car park . |
| 30 | Doors opening all over the place . |