Example sentences of "hung on the wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meeting with Temple was so important to him that the photograph of the group hung on the wall of his room when he died . |
| 2 | The room was bare , except for the staircase , and a pair of indifferent watercolours of dead flowers that hung on the wall opposite the door . |
| 3 | She came downstairs , hung on the wall a portrait of himself that Robin had painted , and his easel below it ; and gave orders that they were not to be removed . |
| 4 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 5 | An embroidered sampler hung on the wall , A BOY 'S BEST FRIEND IS HIS MOTHER . |
| 6 | Cheery posters hung on the wall , and there were a lot of tables shaped like children 's bricks that did for stools or in-trays , made of clear Perspex and spotted with dabs of red and blue paint . |
| 7 | She ran one finger across the keys of his typewriter and looked across the room to the photo of him which hung on the wall , smiling . |
| 8 | Rather : thin muslin sheets of brown and red were being pulled past his eyes , patterned like the blankets woven by the women , patterned like the rug that hung on the wall in his daughter 's room . |
| 9 | Same list of icecream flavours hung on the wall and bowl of aniseed lollipops on the counter , same gilt baskets of croissants and racks like umbrella stands packed with tall loaves . |
| 10 | With a piercing stab of remorse at yet another misconstruction , Merrill recalled the painting she had thought belonged to Luke , which hung on the wall outside his room . |
| 11 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 12 | I padded round the room and quietly filched any precious object there : a small set of silver candlesticks , two finely chased pewter goblets and a cunningly wrought steel crucifix which hung on the wall . |
| 13 | He looked at his wife 's portrait which hung on the wall opposite where he sat . |
| 14 | Scenes of India and Tibet hung on the walls , and I enjoyed a late-night coffee among wicker chairs , potted plants and handwoven Oriental rugs . |
| 15 | Tapestries bearing heraldic devices hung on the walls , and medieval artefacts including statuettes , shields and facsimile books of hours , were displayed on strategically positioned tables . |
| 16 | We entered a room with curtains hung on the walls . |
| 17 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 18 | If there was the slightest breeze from any direction the smoke would spread itself evenly between chimney and room in more or less equal proportions , which was why the once white walls had the appearance of very old ivory and the mounted fox heads , hunting trophies which hung on the walls , had a fine coating of brown dust , and their yellow eyes a slightly inebriated , glazed expression . |
| 19 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 20 | Cloth of gold and exquisite tapestries hung on the walls , their fringes reaching down to the wooden panelling . |
| 21 | Tapestries hung on the walls and Turkey rugs covered the polished floor . |
| 22 | At one place they visited , Moccas Court , in Herefordshire , home of the Cornwall family , she was able to tell the curator who formerly worked for the Ropner family at Thorp Perrow , near Bedale all about the people whose impressive portraits hung on the walls . |
| 23 | As soon as he entered , Athelstan sensed it was a woman 's chamber : hand-woven tapestries hung on the walls , one depicting a golden dragon locked in combat with a silver wyvern . |