Example sentences of "hang [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 3 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 5 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 6 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 7 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 8 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 9 | If they think peace is impossible , they will hang on to the extra layer of defence these territories provide . |
| 10 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 11 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 12 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 13 | But verily , for that lawless coronation that she made , she shall be most firmly enclosed in a dwelling of stone and iron , made like a crown , and at Berwick be hung up in the open air , that she may be given , in life and after death , for a gazing-stock and an everlasting scorn to those who pass by . ’ |
| 14 | The spade and the fork they had hung up among the other tools in the stables . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the penis is flaccid it hangs there like the last chicken in Sainsbury 's . |
| 18 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 19 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 20 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 21 | Two dusty fans , which I suspected had not moved since the French walked out in 1962 , hung idly from the high ceiling . |
| 22 | Soon it would be crossing the wide patch in front of the gates , where the great chain hung uselessly from the broken padlock . |
| 23 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 24 | The osiers were almost hidden by plaited straw and by interlacing branches of yew and laurel ; coloured streamers attached to the rim hung limply on the still air and within the Wheel , in a bower of straw and foliage , was a life-size figure wearing a grotesque mask and enveloped in a black cloak . |
| 25 | It hung limply from the tubercular shoulders of its master like a wet rag on a cardboard donkey . |
| 26 | Simple , uncompromising , the cloth hung limply in the frosty air . |
| 27 | In front of the clubhouse , the flags of the 20 or so nations represented among the 260 competitors hung limply in the flat calm as the early starters fidgeted nervously awaiting their call to the first tee . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His long hands hung clumsily from the short sleeves of his jacket , like a scarecrow 's stuffed gloves from its straw body . |