Example sentences of "hang on the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 2 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 3 | Peering through the kitchen window she could see the remains of three breakfasts and her daughter 's new green coat hanging on the back of the kitchen door . |
| 4 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 5 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |
| 6 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 7 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 8 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 9 | Hung on the back wall were half-a-dozen milky seascapes . |
| 10 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 11 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 12 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 13 | Her coat hung on the back of the door , her handbag stood open on the side . |
| 14 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 15 | Gloria took it from him to hang on the back of the door . |