Example sentences of "hung the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |