Example sentences of "which [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Strap was a thick leather belt , about 3 inches wide , which hung on a hook . |
| 2 | The cupboard was just deep enough to hold him sitting cross-legged , his head concealed in the pinstriped folds of Francie 's second-best suit , which hung on a hanger . |
| 3 | Athelstan saw the pearl pendant which hung on a gold chain from one ear lobe . |
| 4 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 5 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 6 | In Anglo-Irish. erm ‘ There was a small tap on the pane , as though something had struck it , followed by a light , though abundant falling , as though grains of sand were being dropped from a window above , and then a more intense and regular sound , which took on a rhythm and became fluid , resonant , musical , infinite , universal . |
| 7 | For me this has been a very exciting year in which to take on a directorship of the department . |