Example sentences of "[vb base] all [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun .
2 Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ?
3 Repeat all along the row .
4 Mix the herbs into the softened butter and rub all over the lamb .
5 During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host .
6 Treasures front all over the world .
7 I recall as a boy watching in admiration as Mr. Harry Martin , the signwriter wrote The Brewery Tap all along the front of the building , some thirty feet above street level .
8 It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings .
9 The quare fella here is Master of the Tipperary and they hunt all along the valley of the Suir — the way the line is to go .
10 Now , as a new year begins , will you help Save the Children to continue providing care and support all over the world ?
11 ‘ They dive all over the place .
12 Yes , it 's like just walk all over the students again .
13 With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass .
14 He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow .
15 By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau .
16 ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed .
17 Geographically , operators can be found spread all over the globe , but the so-called Third World , especially the Caribbean and Alaska are the prime areas of the activity .
18 Migration followed the establishment of a world economic system : Indians spread all over the British Empire ; Chinese went to Singapore and Indonesia .
19 He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world .
20 All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape .
21 The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way .
22 There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available .
23 A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . "
24 But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state .
25 These gaily coloured little creatures run all over the shaman 's body , and often live in convenient crannies such as in his ears and in between his toes .
26 Run all over the board like that .
27 look all over the look .
28 It may seem odd to find these aquatic animals appearing in the desert , but the eggs of these shrimps probably lie all over the desert , collecting in the depressions which ultimately become pools .
29 ‘ They seed all over the place and have the morals of tom cats , so are found in every flower bed , skulking behind hedges , peering round gate posts , naturalising in any open space .
30 Not round Havers , wh they park where those , those sort of shops are they they park all around the corners so that you have to go out round them .
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