Example sentences of "from [art] wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 2 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 3 | Because someone had tried — very badly — to soundproof the room , all the walls were covered with cork tiles which stood proud from the wall behind . |
| 4 | She climbed the stairs to get it , crunched her way across the glass-strewn room , feeling a strong rush of her earlier panic , and unhooked the painting from the wall . |
| 5 | A roomette on The Canadian , when you eventually join it , is slightly under seven foot by three ( which includes a private lav ) with a bed that slides out from the wall ; it thus manages to combine the characteristics of both the womb and the mortuary . |
| 6 | He is credited with forcing Gen Noriega to remove a portrait of Adolf Hitler from the wall of his secret bunker , training the dictator 's personal bodyguard , setting up his computer networks and complex personal banking system , and establishing a small and private intelligence team to watch over the Panamanian secret police and military intelligence . |
| 7 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 8 | He unpinned all his pictures and posters from the wall . |
| 9 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 10 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 11 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 12 | There is a new phone box , ripped from the wall and lying on the floor of her office to prove it . |
| 13 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 14 | The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground . |
| 15 | Simple and safe to use , it will follow contours and will cut any weight of wallpaper , including double overlaps , which can be trimmed without lifting from the wall . |
| 16 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 17 | As we went up the almost perpendicular staircase , Wendy pulled the banister away from the wall . |
| 18 | As Blake jumped down from the wall he fell heavily and broke his wrist . |
| 19 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 20 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 21 | He , having lost all his money gambling or speculating in stocks , seizes such a weapon from the wall , kills her and dumps her body in the alley . |
| 22 | Marcus turned to Franca and said in his deep slow honey voice , with his slightly foreign accent , ‘ Please could you move the bed away from the wall . |
| 23 | It should be alongside the wall , or about one foot away from the wall to allow space for the carer , in case she needs to help the patient from that side . |
| 24 | If the staircase is suffering from poor design or bad workmanship , from wood rot or heavy infestation by woodworm , if it has loose joists or suffers separation from the wall — then you can mark down a major defect , as it will probably require complete renewal . |
| 25 | Indeed , even in our own garden , in the centre of a rose bed , there was a small slab which looked suspiciously Roman ; I am sure in the dim and distant past it had been filched from the wall . |
| 26 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 27 | Nearer our own time , in 1830 , when the extensive manor of Ingleton changed hands , the new owner had a tower intended as a hospice erected on the summit , made from stone pillaged from the wall and the foundations of the huts . |
| 28 | The picture , which showed a high ranking Mandarin on his balcony bidding farewell to his pet , a white heron , which was flying away , was immediately taken from the wall , wrapped in red paper and presented to me , much to my embarrassment . |
| 29 | The gas-jet projecting from the wall above the fireplace filled the room with a greenish glow . |
| 30 | In the snicket only some three feet away from the wall of the shop was a public urinal , the dirtiest and smelliest I have every known . |