Example sentences of "hang [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 2 | The spade and the fork they had hung up among the other tools in the stables . |
| 3 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 4 | The combs hang vertically with the hexagonal cells on them facing outwards and tilted slightly upwards from the horizontal so that the honey , before it is capped off , does not run out . |
| 5 | It hung limply from the tubercular shoulders of its master like a wet rag on a cardboard donkey . |
| 6 | Frankie themselves were typical graduates of the 1970s post-punk provincial scene ( five lads from Liverpool ) in which Bowie boys became punks and skins , dyed their hair repeatedly , hung out in the gay clubs with the furtiveness that marks everyone on provincial streets in the small hours . |
| 7 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 8 | His long hands hung clumsily from the short sleeves of his jacket , like a scarecrow 's stuffed gloves from its straw body . |
| 9 | At a friend 's studio she posed , head on one side and delicate long fingers hanging languidly from the enveloping sleeves of her home-made gown . |
| 10 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |