Example sentences of "from [art] walls " in BNC.
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| 31 | To reduce salt levels and assist evaporation , interior and exterior pebble-filled ditches have been dug around the church with perforated plastic pipes designed to collect salt-charged water seeping from the walls . |
| 32 | There are African masks and Polynesian sculptures bought at Sotheby 's ; goats ' skulls slung over doors ; and hanging from the walls are his own canvases — massive primitive paintings that he says are fertility symbols of women . |
| 33 | Once the Abbey Road studios were like a big family with pictures of Otto Klemperer and Christa Ludwig welcoming you from the walls . |
| 34 | Every table was full with local Battersea types who , if not exactly carousing that Tuesday night , kept up a restrained married hum above jazz filtering mauvely from the walls . |
| 35 | After the dislodgement by French forces of agitators who had hanged the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews from the walls of St Andrews castle and then sustained a protracted siege , Knox served a term in the French galleys until released by the intervention of Edward VI of England , to whom he became a royal chaplain . |
| 36 | The ivy , a monstrous growth after 10 years , was ambitiously and foolishly poised to tumble from the walls to the tidy , frigid gardens beyond ( clearly , it had n't seen them ) . |
| 37 | Ebenezer Chapel , Siloa Chapel — cold , gloomy places with pictures of dead , bearded Chapel Elders looking down from the walls . |
| 38 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |
| 39 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 40 | The wallpaper was long gone from the walls , and here and there in places were rust-coloured stains that looked like blood . |
| 41 | Radio waves emitted from his apparatus were being reflected from the walls of his laboratory back on to the apparatus and were interfering with his measurements . |
| 42 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 43 | Before that , these mums wo n't sit down and talk about contraceptives , you have to learn it all from the walls at school or from friends , because these parents are n't telling you . |
| 44 | ‘ From the walls , from the floors … from the bloody ceiling . |
| 45 | And Cardiff remembered the screaming from the walls and the floor and the ceiling ; remembered the familiar voice that had screamed his name . |
| 46 | Hundreds of voices whispered from the walls , the ceiling and the floors . |
| 47 | Cracks zig-zagged from floor to ceiling , chunks of plaster fell in spattering clouds from the walls and three more windows exploded inwards . |
| 48 | It was very noisy ; every other table was full and music babbled from the walls . |
| 49 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 50 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 51 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 52 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |
| 53 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 54 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 55 | Barbara insisted that in keeping with the period the only light was to come from the candles , which flickered romantically from the walls and the three Bohemian crystal chandeliers on the ceiling . |
| 56 | This infill could come from ejecta falling back into the crater , including molten rock from the impact , lava from volcanic activity , and dust from the walls and beyond . |
| 57 | The carpet was threadbare and innocent of pattern , paper was peeling from the walls but there were pictures in gilded frames . |
| 58 | His shadow was strewn off to his right like a capering phantom as he kicked his steed northwards from the walls of the Rorim towards the ever-rising hills that surged out of the Dale into a heather-thick rampart of blue and purple heights beyond . |
| 59 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
| 60 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |