Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 2 | Dr P was asked what effect the growth of English literature all over the world , and the advent of modern literary criticism , had had on English teaching in universities : |
| 3 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 4 | There was a glorious sunset rush of pure-blooded warmth all over her back and right down to her fingertips . |
| 5 | The result was that all one could see was dozens and dozens of blinking lights all over the sky . |
| 6 | I also kept in touch with the Navy by accepting , every October , invitations from a variety of naval establishments all over the country to propose the toast of the Immortal Memory of Lord Nelson at their Trafalgar Night dinners . |
| 7 | Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them . |
| 8 | But there must be hundreds of little firms all over the country who still use it for special jobs . " |
| 9 | make them like swimming hats with lots of little flowers all over them |
| 10 | This is because the UK would have to contribute £39 000 a year to a fund to help protect natural and cultural sites of international importance all over the world . |
| 11 | well he likes marshal art do n't he ? we wo n't tell daddy that you knocked a full on the table of black currant all over the carpet will we ? |
| 12 | In exactly the same way , too many people are looking into the mind of the homosexual rather than considering the repugnance that is caused to millions of decent people all over the country … . |
| 13 | It 's positioned under the usual plates , ( with flat plate uppermost ) and the outflow from the tank hits the rotating bar , sending a spray of oxygenated water all over the media . |
| 14 | Bring back the express so , it does n't sort of highlight it , because they do n't have tiers of borrowed storage all over the place . |
| 15 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 16 | Money was moved out of small banks all over the world . |
| 17 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 18 | His other interest , ethnographical collections , grew through his support of Czech travellers all over the world . |
| 19 | I 'm not sure about that but I am sure that the relative strength of a South African side is the subject of heated debate all over the rugby world and , depending on who you speak to , the ‘ Boks are either the true World Champions or a collection of dinosaurs , hopelessly out of touch with the modern game and in for a rude awakening . |
| 20 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 21 | I emphaasise that those figures are all random , and they show that hundreds of young people all over the country are denied a job or a YT place . |
| 22 | His death was supposed to have been messy , and there was a lot of realistic blood all over his costume . |