Example sentences of "hang [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | The question hung there in the cool air of the mountainside , the whole world seemingly silent and listening . |
| 32 | As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air . |
| 33 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 36 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 37 | ‘ He began getting very rebellious and started hanging around with the wrong crowd , says Steven . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) . |
| 40 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 41 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 42 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 43 | Benjamin pointed to the Sea Barque , a narrow tenement three storeys high with a great ale stake tucked under its eaves and a gaudily painted sign hanging tipsily over the battered door . |
| 44 | Hanging about on the other side of the open door , you wanted to screech then run . |
| 45 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 46 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 47 | Ears are to be set well apart , hanging forward with the inner edge lying tightly against the head and terminating at approximately mid-cheek . |