Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [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 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall . |
| 8 | It flung open and slammed back against the wall . |
| 9 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Turn around and jump back to the wall . |
| 12 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 15 | Bodie shivered at the closeness of that escape , and glanced back to the wall where Nicky Stone was lounging . |
| 16 | He cried out in agony and stumbled back against the wall . |
| 17 | He cried out in pain and stumbled back against the wall . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I put my hands in my pockets and leant back against the wall . |
| 21 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 22 | Insert the next panel , interlocking it with the adjoining one , and carry on around the walls . |
| 23 | I sat down on the bench and leaned back against the wall . |
| 24 | Lucien settled himself upon the only piece of furniture — a bench — and leaned back against the wall . |
| 25 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 26 | He sighed and leaned back against the wall again . |
| 27 | Now old and new furies possessed me and I had the man by the neck of his jersey and pushed up against the wall . |
| 28 | His face darkened , and as he strode grimly towards her she stumbled hastily to her feet and backed up against the wall . |