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 .
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