Example sentences of "[noun pl] hanging on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 2 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 3 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was very religious … had texts hanging on the wall , framed text . |
| 6 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 7 | Midnight , tall and still against a background of copper pans hanging on the wall , looked directly at Jess . |