Example sentences of "[pron] hang on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
3 | If there was the slightest breeze from any direction the smoke would spread itself evenly between chimney and room in more or less equal proportions , which was why the once white walls had the appearance of very old ivory and the mounted fox heads , hunting trophies which hung on the walls , had a fine coating of brown dust , and their yellow eyes a slightly inebriated , glazed expression . |
4 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
5 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |