1. The clock ticked relentlessly away on the mantelpiece.

2. We have an antique clock on our mantelpiece.

3. The clock on the mantelpiece struck 10.

4. There was a clock on the mantelpiece.

5. A clock and two vases stood on the mantelpiece.

6. The clock on the mantelpiece said twelve o'clock.

7. A silver vase stood on the mantelpiece.

8. I was dusting the mantelpiece when I noticed a crack.

9. On the mantelpiece are a pair of bronze Ming vases.

10. The clock on the mantelpiece struck the tenth hour.

11. And cast your eye to the mantelpiece.

12. It's small enough to fit on the mantelpiece.

13. The cards were hung above the mantelpiece.

14. The clock ticked away on the mantelpiece.

15. The ormolu clock ticked on the mantelpiece.

16. Another showed her on top of a mantelpiece with Lord Byron's bust tucked cosily between her legs.

17. The china money jar on the kitchen mantelpiece that contained their emergency funds lay shattered and empty on the floor.

18. She's got photographs of all her grandchildren on the mantelpiece.

19. There were photographs of all her children proudly displayed on the mantelpiece.

20. His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece.

21. Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.

22. There were a strange conglomeration of objects on the mantelpiece.

23. The photo was given pride of place on the mantelpiece.

24. After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece.

25. Soundlessly, he swept his forearm down the whole length of the mantelpiece, scattering cards and ornaments alike.

26. A fire leaped in the hearth under a marble mantelpiece identical to the one in her own flat.

27. She began to turn the pictures round and flap at the mantelpiece with a duster.http:///mantelpiece.html

28. Mention that a species is rare and the world wants it on its mantelpiece or in its collection.

29. May Jupiter forgive me for saying this Buddy-but I do think his head would go nice on your mantelpiece.

30. Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposed beams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.

1. The clock ticked relentlessly away on the mantelpiece.

2. A silver vase stood on the mantelpiece.

3. His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece.

31. It's the odd details that get to you, the picture of the royal wedding on the mantelpiece.

32. Her dentures grin at her, gargling water on the mantelpiece.

33. The mantelpiece above was crowded with gleaming brasses, which she vaguely made out as candlesticks.

34. He stared into the mirror that hung above the mantelpiece.

35. The Bishop gazed at his defunct colonial colleague in the portrait over the mantelpiece.

36. One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece.

37. Two childish Christmas cards, obviously made at school, stood on the mantelpiece.

38. She emptied the dustpan and searched for something else to do, straightening the Christmas cards on the mantelpiece as she passed.

39. Slater led her past the other people, over towards the mantelpiece and him.

40. Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.

41. Judith glanced up at the mantelpiece above the range where letters were always left and saw the familiar blue envelope.

42. On the mantelpiece there was a small lamp with a crimson shade and I switched it on.

43. Taped to the wall above the mantelpiece was a large-scale map of Moon Beach.

44. There were invitation cards and calling cards arranged along his mantelpiece, apparently casually but giving no doubt of his social success.

45. There was a mirror over the mantelpiece and he could see the door in it.

46. The dovecot clock struck five, the clock on the mantelpiece behind me struck fourteen: mad as ever.

47. The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life.

48. He noticed the picture frames on the mantelpiece had been turned to the wall.

49. They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage.

50. Silver cups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a huge arched brick fireplace.

51. I'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp's place.

52. All the same ... Bottles of whisky and vodka stood on the mantelpiece of his room, often replaced.

53. On the mantelpiece she displayed photographs of dead people, propped up in their coffins, looking glum.

54. Evans had gone through into the lounge and was standing leaning against the mantelpiece in the classic pose of grief.

55. Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you're now too poor to furnish?

56. Eighteen milk bottles on the mantelpiece, some with milky smears and doubtless smelling cheesy.

57. A thought struck her, and she leapt up to peer into the mirror over the mantelpiece.

57. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

58. The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece.

59. She centered the clock on the mantelpiece.

60. It had gone from the mantelpiece.

61. As in a signed photograph on a mantelpiece.

62. Don't stub your cigarettes out on my mantelpiece!

63. A young man was leaning against the mantelpiece.

64. His darts trophy takes pride of place on mantelpiece.

64. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

65. A clock ornamented the mantelpiece.

66. There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute-gun.

67. Above the mantelpiece hung a charming 18 th century conversation piece by an unknown artist.

68. Everything in that drawing - room was in key with that mantelpiece.

69. Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece ,() lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall .

70. I heard him knock his pipe out on the mantelpiece.

71. Fireplace: Opening made in the Base of a chimney to hold an open fire. The opening is framed, usually ornamentally, by a mantel (or mantelpiece).

72. Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.

73. Opening made in the Base of a chimney to hold an open fire. The opening is framed, usually ornamentally, by a mantel (or mantelpiece).

74. I heard him knock out his pipe on the mantelpiece.

75. The clock on the mantelpiece ticked away loudly in the stillness.

76. Mary's late husband had been a judge, and she kept his gavel on the mantelpiece.

77. She ould hear the clock ticking away on the mantelpiece.

78. Mr Deasy stared sternly for some moments over the mantelpiece at the shapely bulk of a man in tartan fillibegs: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

79. That's a mantelpiece cluttered up with all kinds of doodad.

80. There's nothing like a little golden statuette on the mantelpiece to burnish a fragile ego.

81. He noticed that the clock on the mantelpiece said nine, meaning twenty - one.