Example sentences of "hanging over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bend forwards and rest your forearms on the bench with your hands hanging over the edge . |
| 2 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 3 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 4 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 5 | But the house hanging over the cliff got me into agonies of suspense , and I was amazed , when the dark came without bombs , by how the black on the screen , especially the black of Charlie Chaplin 's suit , his moustache , hat and rolling intense eyes , fitted the darkness of the little cinema . |
| 6 | You do n't monitor day in and day out , hanging over the shoulders of individuals but periodically you go in and question why people are not meeting deadlines they 've agreed to . |
| 7 | The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983 . |
| 8 | An occasional distraction , an even more seductive glow , is the full moon hanging over the sea , right in the middle of my window . |
| 9 | Many experts believe the flow could become a torrent if the government ever comes to grips with the debt and property problems still hanging over the east . |
| 10 | A thin moon is already hanging over the river and the swallows are feeding very high , a sign of continuing fine weather . |
| 11 | Family Finance : Investments with a no-lose guarantee With election uncertainty hanging over the stock market , Tom Tickell looks at equity bonds that offer at least your money back |
| 12 | Overall confidence is down because of the gloom hanging over the banking sector . |
| 13 | Although this section of the wall was under constant surveillance by two warders , one of whom had to patrol the perimeter wall on foot taking about eight minutes , Blake was able to reach the foot of the wall unobserved where he found Bourke 's ladder , with which he made his escape , hanging over the wall . |
| 14 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 15 | It was hanging over the side of the quarry , and she might have missed seeing it if the handles had n't been bright-red . |
| 16 | A.D. 850 — a calm morning with mist hanging over the river and through the forest . |
| 17 | Most of the cutter comprised a powerful electromagnet , hanging over the turntable from the ceiling because of its weight . |
| 18 | There 's a cloth hanging over the fireplace . ’ |
| 19 | As she opened her mouth to shriek , he grabbed a green towel hanging over the shower rail and slapped it over her mouth . |
| 20 | Across the river from my house , hanging over the road to Honeydew from Petrolia , in far northern California , six hours drive above San Francisco , is a cliff face some 300 feet high , whose face is a constantly changing testament to the subterranean upheavals that make this region the most seismically active on the North American continent . |
| 21 | Less than a week after riots over price rises in basic commodities left 22 dead in the greatest upheaval since independence 18 years ago , the Consultative Group of donor governments finds itself reviewing Malawi 's human rights record with two large question marks hanging over the debate . |
| 22 | ‘ The only spectre hanging over the property market is unemployment at the moment . |
| 23 | When I recovered myself and controlled my weeping , my attention was attracted by Granny 's photograph hanging over the mantelshelf . |
| 24 | Wilkinson took his team south yesterday with big question marks hanging over the fitness of Dorigo , goalkeeper John Lukic and midfielder David Batty . |
| 25 | Earlier he had made the same gesture , in the car when she was afraid of the storm , the sky rolling over on itself , hanging over the wheatfields . |
| 26 | The only slight cloud hanging over the Australian World Cup celebrations was the realisation that Nick Farr-Jones would not be there to lead them out in their next match . |
| 27 | He spotted her clothes hanging over the bottom rail of the iron bedstead . |
| 28 | Dawn , despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains , found us hitching towards Cairngorm . |
| 29 | There were oil lamps hanging over the verandah , and they threw black shadows towards the mosque entrance , and towards the shop where clothes were sold , long since shut . |
| 30 | Loss of employment as the result of an uninvestigated charge of neglect of duty or malversation was not the only threat hanging over the head of an officer of the revenue . |