Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] wall [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left : In the kitchen , Philip painted an impression of sunlight filtering on to the wall in a style reminiscent of a Hitchcock film |
| 2 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 3 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 4 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 5 | When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket . |
| 6 | You may now let it all hang out on the walls of the 303 Gallery from 6 June to 3 July where an open-forum show called ‘ Writing on the Walls ’ invites public participation . |
| 7 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
| 8 | He did n't smile as the Shermans approached but waited with his left hand resting on the hilt of his ceremonial sword , his aloof expression suggesting that he estimated the dignity of his person to be at least equal to that of the fabled hero of France looking down from the wall behind him . |
| 9 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 11 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |
| 12 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 13 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 14 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 15 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 16 | Her first impression was one of sunlight pouring in from the wall of windows facing her , casting bright patches across the fitted almond-green carpet . |
| 17 | She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike . |
| 18 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 19 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 20 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 21 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 22 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 23 | She was now seated on the ground , propped up against the wall of one of the grimy tenements they had been passing ; someone had brought water , and Dr Neil was gently wiping her face with his damp handkerchief . |
| 24 | Stop holding on to the wall like that ! ’ |
| 25 | The siren ceased , the lighting stabilized and a large image sprang up on the wall behind him . |
| 26 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 27 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 28 | ‘ There was no natural character to the room : it was a white box with modern doors , modern units and a Rayburn that stuck out of the wall like a sore thumb . ’ |
| 29 | He stepped out of the wall of flame onto the steps of the saloon , and strode , still burning , into the street . |
| 30 | The narrow inner door had been invisible in the uniformity of the panelling , and its latch had made no sound as it was lifted ; but suddenly there was a man framed in the doorway , a lean , wiry , lightly-built creature , stepping out of the wall with a conjuror 's aplomb and a deer-hound 's lanky grace . |