Example sentences of "hang [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More subtle perhaps are the two blue pegs , hanging the old rag out to dry , or the pusse pink ‘ SERVICE ’ . |
| 2 | After the dislodgement by French forces of agitators who had hanged the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews from the walls of St Andrews castle and then sustained a protracted siege , Knox served a term in the French galleys until released by the intervention of Edward VI of England , to whom he became a royal chaplain . |
| 3 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 4 | You can now hang the new radiator on its brackets , and check that the old valves can be connected to the valve tails . |
| 5 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 6 | You could hang a small village there . |
| 7 | The next possible commemorative year on which we might hang an Open Day and other celebrations would appear to be 1999 , marking 300 years since the Royal Charter was granted to James Sutherland ( 12 January , 1699 ) . |
| 8 | He had hung the battered sword over the spice cupboard in Lucille 's kitchen , and had claimed to be glad that he would never again have to draw the war-dulled blade from its metal scabbard . |
| 9 | We had first hung the avant-garde pictures in our main room , but as the man in charge of our building , and a local policeman , sometimes called on us , my wife and I decided to hang the pictures in the bedroom and put the icons in the living room . |
| 10 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 11 | This last was named because he had hung the green flag of the Irish Free State and also the red flag of Russia in the church , but a band of reactionary students from Cambridge tore them down , and eventually they were condemned as illegal by a consistory court . |
| 12 | Men and horses were decorated with green , yellow and red silks and shields covered with gold and silverwork ; and round the horses ' necks were hung the bloodstained cloaks and trophies of the men each rider had killed . |
| 13 | The framework is fixed about 50mm from the party wall , and into this space is hung a sound-absorbent quilt , held by a batten fixed either to the wall or ceiling . |
| 14 | At the far end was hung a large tarpaulin . |
| 15 | On the walls of his ‘ with-drawing ’ room , as he called it , he had hung an important reminder , a notice carefully lettered by himself : ‘ Stop doing , start thinking ’ . |
| 16 | Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up . |
| 17 | ‘ Why not just hang the poor sod ? ’ |
| 18 | About these polarities hang the varying states of consciousness that can and do arise ( see Chapter ii ) . |
| 19 | Speaking later to the NME 's Danny Kelly , Johnny Marr would defend the ‘ Hang the blessed DJ ’ lyric : |
| 20 | Even easier is to work the samples as a strip for the length of a sweater , sew the strips together , hang the top edge on to needles and complete with some rib for slash neckline . |
| 21 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |
| 22 | It covers the upper part of the body and consists of bands of semicircular scales all pointing upwards , ending at the lower edge in a belt from which hangs a broad piece of pleated cloth . |
| 23 | She says the 38-year old bachelor hangs a three-foot brass and crystal ‘ pod ’ over his bed to ‘ cleanse and heal the soul ’ . |
| 24 | hangs a giant fig leaf on Moby Dick |
| 25 | On their sitting-room wall hangs a big calendar illustrated by glossy colour photographs of Mr Deng 's visit to southern China in early 1992 — the pilgrimage that relaunched radical economic reform in China . |
| 26 | In the second , The Holburne of Menstrie Museum ( in Great Pulteney Street ) , hangs a fine collection of Gainsboroughs in rooms furnished with period pieces , silver and porcelain . |
| 27 | As it is , Sun remains the only major player to snub the box , yet X terminals leader NCD hangs a significant share of its machines on Sun sites or on heterogeneous systems involving Suns , while rivals HP has no problem with selling combinations of workstations and X-terminals for a considerable price-per-seat advantage . |
| 28 | They hang a traditional village skirt outside the arrack shop , saying that any man patronising it will be made to wear the skirt . |
| 29 | Then there are shutters in natural or white-painted wood : if you have Victorian shutters , strip them , and hang a pretty lace panel at the window . |
| 30 | Hang a heavy curtain over the front door to make the hall warmer . |