Example sentences of "[noun sg] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a beard all over his chest and back , too . |
| 2 | This one was very small with grey fur all over its body . |
| 3 | Johannsen was a true professional : ignoring the heat and noise all round him , he aimed his blaster and started to fire . |
| 4 | four children , me mum all round the bed waiting for the bugger |
| 5 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 6 | It was the same story all over Bomber Command . |
| 7 | Together we shouted at the man , and told him we would tell this story all over London so that his name would be hated . |
| 8 | If I did n't think you 'd go blabbing your side of the story all over town , I 'd have you out of my house in two shakes . ’ |
| 9 | Vic could imagine him spreading the story all round the works . |
| 10 | Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform |
| 11 | They crawled out the bucket all over the deck . |
| 12 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 13 | As we have seen , it is probable that pairs of virtual particles — one of matter , one of antimatter — spontaneously pop into existence all over the Universe . |
| 14 | It has also become evident from recent literature that there was nothing like a " simultaneous " extinction of many different groups , either within the brachiopods alone or within the organic world in general , at the end of the Permian ; I am told that plant spores , at least , still show an uncannily rapid change at this level all round the world , though the big change in plant macrofossils seems to have come much later . |
| 15 | Think , instead , of a large population in which there is not much movement , so that individuals tend to resemble their immediate neighbours more than their more distant neighbours , even though there is continuous interbreeding all over the whole area . |
| 16 | They said that another friend would look after her , but when we went to see her a month later , she looked absolutely awful , in a field all on her own and full of worms . |
| 17 | And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face . |
| 18 | Chadwick arrives , breezing into the bar , looking well and happy , with a big grin and his hair all over the place . |
| 19 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 20 | ‘ The first time I ever saw you , you were in breeches with your hair all over your face and again the next day when you took me out riding . |
| 21 | It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body . |
| 22 | I found her by the side of the house with her dog , looking like a complete tramp , with a patched-up old coat and hair all over the place . |
| 23 | The little one was podgy with puppy fat and a front tooth missing and a ravishing smile and hair all over the place . |
| 24 | hair all over his chest and shoulders — |
| 25 | Hair all over the place ? ’ |
| 26 | He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw the evidence with my own eyes , Melanie wearing only a dressing-gown , her hair all over the place . |
| 28 | mine , with hair all over it , my hair for my brush |
| 29 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 30 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |