Example sentences of "hang [adv] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Two dusty fans , which I suspected had not moved since the French walked out in 1962 , hung idly from the high ceiling . |
| 5 | Soon it would be crossing the wide patch in front of the gates , where the great chain hung uselessly from the broken padlock . |
| 6 | It hung limply from the tubercular shoulders of its master like a wet rag on a cardboard donkey . |
| 7 | His long hands hung clumsily from the short sleeves of his jacket , like a scarecrow 's stuffed gloves from its straw body . |
| 8 | 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 . |