Example sentences of "be all over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , I 've been all over the North , so I 'm leaving it this time . ’
2 As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong .
3 Most of my friends have n't been outside Australia , let alone been all over the world .
4 With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together .
5 Ben 's been all over the world since then
6 ‘ Do n't be so flamin' cheeky , ’ said Otley , ‘ we 've been all over the place looking for you . ’
7 By that I mean book-signing sessions — I 've been all over the place , from Darlington and Beverley in the North , to as far as Nottingham in the South , and met some wonderful people — and literary luncheons , plus what I suppose you could call ‘ personal appearances ’ at all kinds of functions .
8 Josephine , Cynthia , and Agnes had been all over the place .
9 We 've been all over the place but Blackpool 's my favourite .
10 And we 've been all over the place have n't we Arthur .
11 Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map .
12 Staff here are all over the moon .
13 These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart .
14 It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion .
15 Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion .
16 Statistics are all over the place .
17 And the eggs are all over the place .
18 ITN 's political match-summariser says that ‘ individually the polls are all over the place , but put them all together and you get a message you can trust ’ — not a science graduate , presumably .
19 So your capillaries are all over the place .
20 ‘ The police are all over the place .
21 employ twelve hundred people , much of their traffic passes through Bungay , their products , their employee and supplies are all over the place and their products are distributed country-wide , much of their traffic goes through Bungay , and I think they both have plans to extend their plants both er Buxton and Bernard Matthews .
22 His fingerprints are all over the car .
23 Booth , Wright , Smith and Ferguson are all over the age of 21 .
24 But now they all know they 're going on holiday four weeks on wednesday so they 're all over the moon , overjoyed .
25 Estate agents cos they 're all over the country .
26 And golf clubs cos I play golf and they 're all over the country .
27 here 's some coins for playing with , for doing erm , adding up and takings aways with the younger ones , and I keep those in there , and they 're all over the bottom of that bag .
28 MUNROS , THEY 'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE .
29 They 're all over the place , west , east and in between .
30 Er you you 're sort of chatting away and people come in and they 're all over the place , so er
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