Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Beds that fold down from the wall when they are needed have lost their makeshift image and have been updated to a new smooth efficiency and now come complete with a wall of closets or wardrobes . |
| 5 | ‘ What is he like ? ’ asked Huy as soon as they were clear of the building and out in the broad street that ran close to the walls of the palace complex . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What amazes me , apart from the instant MGM jungle scenery that leaps out of the walls the minute you walk in , the way the carpet has become an over the rainbow poppy field , only it 's rose petals , what amazes me is we do n't run out of things to say . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then he picked up his torch , switched off the bedside light and made his way down-stairs treading warily and keeping close to the wall to avoid the creaking treads . |
| 10 | The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall . |
| 11 | It flung open and slammed back against the wall . |
| 12 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 13 | Go along this for about 50 yards , then turn off right and drop down towards the wall and then towards a big double metal gate ahead . |
| 14 | Two modes of entry have been suggested , one that they pierce the muscular layer of the upper rectum and travel upwards in the wall of the colon , and the other that they follow the course of the inferior mesenteric artery and its branches . |
| 15 | Turn around and jump back to the wall . |
| 16 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 19 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
| 20 | Bodie shivered at the closeness of that escape , and glanced back to the wall where Nicky Stone was lounging . |
| 21 | He cried out in agony and stumbled back against the wall . |
| 22 | He cried out in pain and stumbled back against the wall . |
| 23 | There was an unguarded wood fire flickering in the room where they had sat with Miss Tuckey , throwing deceptive shadows that stretched and shrank quickly on the walls . |
| 24 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 25 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 26 | The ghost shrieked out and fell backwards to the wall , whereupon the dog rushed forward and seized Durham 's leg . |
| 27 | Push the crate left to hit the switch , go down , collect the star and fly up , left and then down , go left , collect the star , fly straight right , then fly up , land on one of the platforms on the side of the wall , jump up and go right on the chair-lifts , go down , right through the wall , climb up the blocks , push the crate down two platforms and go back through the wall , go left , down , right and jump onto the boat , go right , up and left into the tent to complete the game . |
| 28 | She walked up the path and leant wearily against the wall while she dug in her bag for her key , then groaned when she remembered that it was still lying on the floor of the car park where she had dropped it . |
| 29 | I put my hands in my pockets and leant back against the wall . |
| 30 | Walking back into her room , she sat down on the bed and stared unseeingly at the wall . |