Example sentences of "hang on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 2 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 3 | The pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room , where a woman 's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds . |
| 4 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 5 | She checks her appearance in a mirror hanging on a tree . |
| 6 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 7 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 8 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 9 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 10 | As was quite normal in those days Robert Burrows kept a strap hanging on a hook at the end of the dining table . |
| 11 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 12 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 13 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 14 | There 's an apron hanging on a nail . |
| 15 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 16 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 17 | Ross 's experience struck an identical chord with me , for John Sheard and I had exactly the same experience on the first ascent of Face Route where the second , hanging on a sling to remove gear , was observed by a member of the establishment and a rumour immediately started that was rapidly translated into guidebook writer 's ‘ fact ’ . |
| 18 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 19 | Do you , do you wish to , hang on a minute Hughie . |
| 20 | Er can you hang on a minute Simon ? |
| 21 | Er can you hang on a minute ? |
| 22 | Can you hang on a minute ? |
| 23 | Can you hang on a minute , Bedge ? |
| 24 | everywhere , things like that , so , well I 'll hang on a bit then |
| 25 | If you 'd like to just hang on a second I want to this little . |
| 26 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 27 | His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others . |
| 28 | Two million had died and the world had hung on a heartbeat , and the sky had blazed like a thermonuclear sun standing still . |
| 29 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 30 | That 's what seems to worry people — that photography should be hung on a wall , not stood in the middle of a room . ’ |