Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] on [art] wall " in BNC.

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1 He hesitates , and waves a hand at the board on the wall behind him .
2 Barycz was pretending to study the chart on the wall behind Spatz .
3 Lee was staring at the picture of the Spitfire on the wall .
4 The sunshaft on the wall was dimming and the sky thickening ever so slightly to an evident blue — ‘ how beautiful ’ .
5 He looked up into the eyes of the figure on the wall and saw pain , and sorrow and pity there .
6 The photograph on the wall the one .
7 As you will see from the plaque on the wall , this was founded by the Italians as the Congregation of the Virgin in 1575 .
8 Interest is shown in the plaque on the wall of 82 High Street , shown below .
9 And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C.
10 To the left of the sash window and to the far right of the plate are stacked more coffin boards , probably of elm or oak , whilst the four half-lids are templates , as is the kerf-guide on the wall to the left of the chimney-breast .
11 She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall .
12 He nodded , then went back to the oven , taking a jar from the shelf on the wall and emptying out half its contents on to the board beside the oven .
13 And , while holding a conversation with her client , she was also listening to the voice of her broker , relaying prices from the floor of the Metal Exchange in Plantation House through the loudspeaker on the wall above her desk .
14 Philip stared at the picture on the wall opposite .
15 I know you can see the trees , the view from the window or the picture on the wall — but when was the last time you really looked at them ?
16 But Preston stayed awake , staring at the picture on the wall .
17 In order to avoid thickening the whole wall area , as the Romanesque builders had done , the Gothic mason provided extra reinforcement in the form of a stone buttress at the point on the wall where it was most needed .
18 When the buzzer on the wall sounded she jumped , striking a wrong key .
19 The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring .
20 The phone on the wall rang softly , and Kathleen answered it .
21 She moved to the phone on the wall and called the switchboard , asking them to page the physician , and then turned back to their patient .
22 On the fourth floor is Mozart House , a room which features 3,000–4,000 Mozart CDs , portraits of the maestro on the wall , and an Empire couch to sit on to listen to his music being played continually .
23 If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery .
24 Carry on to Mišeňská Street and notice the sign on the wall in Russian , indicating the route their tanks took in 1945 .
25 But the sign on the wall still said King Street , and Jacob presumed that as yet only members of the IRA and their supporters would call it by its new name .
26 Michael turned slowly away from the doctor and placing one hand on the banister and the other on the wall he slid down , jumping over the younger boys ' heads .
27 We lifted them into place , one of them nestling in precisely to the mark on the wall , left by the previous incumbent .
28 Looking at the menu on the wall I realised how hungry I was , yet I had no means of buying anything to eat ; I had no money and so had no idea of where my next meal would be coming from .
29 In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both .
30 gives him his level then you put the stuff on the wall then you .
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