Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , Pat , not the big fat rabbit that was in the hutch hanging on the wall at the back of the house ? ’ |
| 2 | Hanging on the wall ( behind the lemons ) is a lethal-looking old American corn-drying rack Top The farmhouse seen from across the fields Above Graeme and Sam Fifield-Hall |
| 3 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 5 | She was very religious … had texts hanging on the wall , framed text . |
| 6 | We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses . |
| 7 | Equally , he had a peasant cross , made of embroidered material , hanging on the wall of his bedroom there ; he had bought that in Bulawayo when there with a visiting company in 1953 . |
| 8 | A mound of dirty crockery hid the draining board , and the sight of Mr Piggott 's frying pan hanging on the wall was enough to turn over Mrs Tilling 's stout stomach . |
| 9 | Hanging on the wall by a nail was a notice printed in English : |
| 10 | He then walked out of the room and directly to the area where the collars the chimps had to wear outdoors are usually kept hanging on the wall . |
| 11 | Midnight , tall and still against a background of copper pans hanging on the wall , looked directly at Jess . |
| 12 | ‘ We walked into this shop in Denmark Street , ’ relates Niall Linehan , ‘ with the intention of buying a spare guitar , and I 'd had my eye on this Gibson Les Paul hanging on the wall there . |
| 13 | She leaned back , her head resting against a red and blue carpet hanging on the wall . |
| 14 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 15 | In this new position he could see a picture of a woman hanging on the wall opposite . |
| 16 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 17 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 18 | Hanging on the wall . |
| 19 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 20 | HANGING on the wall at Ted Fletcher Court is a picture known as The Crying Boy . |