Example sentences of "all over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old cow turned and licked her with a huge , wet tongue until her blouse was damp all over the right shoulder , but it was not comforting . |
| 2 | Strach is normally the epitomy of that and swarms all over the right back area in and around the box . |
| 3 | She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child . |
| 4 | Sicked up all over the hideous tangerine carpet . |
| 5 | It should be out of hand and all over the bloody media by now . |
| 6 | Now you 're all over the bloody papers . |
| 7 | thing and her dad 's got a country and western music I mean he , they go all over the bloody place . |
| 8 | No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or |
| 9 | to run all over the bloody place and |
| 10 | If you ask me , it looks like a load of picture of heads all over the bloody place ! |
| 11 | White patches all over the bloody coat with that soap powder . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | There may be the most intense pruritus all over the external genitalia and blood may be drawn as a result of the vigorous scratching this induces . |
| 14 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 15 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Celebratory events were taking place all over the Soviet Union ; but none was more extraordinary , in its modest way , than Charsky 's promised to be . |
| 17 | The referendum took place on 17 March 1991 , when voters all over the Soviet Union were asked to express a view on the following question : ‘ Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the human rights and freedoms of any nationality will be fully guaranteed ? ’ |
| 18 | We have done several hotels all over the Caribbean and have a very good reputation . ’ |
| 19 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 20 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 21 | The villa was run to support everyone who lived there , but as well as this , surplus products , especially wool and grain , were traded with other parts of Britain and with provinces all over the Roman Empire . |
| 22 | A more informative example is that of samian pottery , produced mainly in factories in France and Germany during the Roman period and exported all over the Roman Empire . |
| 23 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 24 | This delicious Greek soup is popular all over the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 25 | Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination . |
| 26 | And er the dampness and the tramping all over the rough ground and what have you , was n't good for his knees . |
| 27 | Pure silk , as so many of Faye 's clothes were , and shimmeringly black with rich , patterned beading all over the bustier-style bodice and tiny bolero jacket . |
| 28 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 29 | Went all over the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 30 | There was a lot of ‘ blood ’ all over the small compartment , it appeared , with Angelica 's battered head in shadow beyond the essential facility . |