Example sentences of "hang on the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Hanging on the hours like heliotropes
2 We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses .
3 Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers .
4 She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire .
5 His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table .
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