Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] wall [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |
| 5 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The siren ceased , the lighting stabilized and a large image sprang up on the wall behind him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The results were pinned up around the walls of the classroom . |
| 14 | It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up . |
| 15 | Mrs Zamzam looked up to the wall of the room where there hung a framed portrait of a young man and woman . |
| 16 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 17 | The same with Bartolini pickups , they work best with Bartolini circuits , so that 's brought back into service a couple of basses that were sitting leaning up against a wall in my house . ’ |
| 18 | A pile of dark plastic sacks were piled up against the wall to one side . |
| 19 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 20 | Then she noticed the walking stick jammed up against the wall between the table and the chair , exactly as though he wanted to hide it or disown it . |
| 21 | he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking . |
| 22 | After placating the hounds , Lorimer jumped up onto the wall of the house with surprising agility and began to climb the ivy . |