Example sentences of "itself [prep] the wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 2 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 3 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 4 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 5 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 6 | Instead , the endometrium will detach itself from the wall of the uterus ( a new lining will grow during the next month ) and both egg and uteral lining , together with a little blood , will be discharged from the vagina as the process of menstruation . |
| 7 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |