Example sentences of "were [verb] all over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 2 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 3 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 4 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 5 | He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles . |
| 6 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 7 | Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change . |
| 8 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 9 | They were exhibited all over the world , and appeared in London at the Egyptian Hall in 1829 . |
| 10 | Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day . |
| 11 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 12 | Metal castings were exported all over the world and an industrial proletariat developed very early . |
| 13 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck . |
| 16 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 18 | Three thousand men worked here once , producing slates that were shipped all over the world from the specially built Port Dinorwic on the Menai Strait . |
| 19 | They were shipped all over the world Spain , Australia and South America being popular destinations . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch . |
| 21 | Max Jacob was homosexual , trying desperately to look distinguished in his top hat , evening dress , spats and monocle , whilst Modi 's affairs with women were known all over the quarter . |
| 22 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |
| 23 | They were running all over the place . |
| 24 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 25 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 26 | were jumping all over the place and the action moved |
| 27 | ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins . |
| 28 | Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk , along with newspaper clippings and research notes on my two guests . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Less pure grades of graphite were discovered all over the world but none had the structure of the Borrowdale type . |