Example sentences of "hung on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 2 | This meeting with Temple was so important to him that the photograph of the group hung on the wall of his room when he died . |
| 3 | As I hung on the phone , I ingested the sad evidence of a service which , although well-intentioned , simply had n't coped . |
| 4 | Scenes of India and Tibet hung on the walls , and I enjoyed a late-night coffee among wicker chairs , potted plants and handwoven Oriental rugs . |
| 5 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 6 | On the walls of the tombs in the cliffs above Beni Hassan are painted the meals expected in the after life , the menus marked with the number of portions required , as on cards hung on the doorknobs of hotel bedrooms to order breakfast . |
| 7 | The room was bare , except for the staircase , and a pair of indifferent watercolours of dead flowers that hung on the wall opposite the door . |
| 8 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 9 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 10 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 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 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 13 | They hung on the Sergeant 's every word , handled the pistols with reverence ; their concentration was intense . |
| 14 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 15 | He grabbed his overcoat which hung on the inside of the door . |
| 16 | A notice hung on the gate and he read the words in the beam of the headlamps : DANGER . |
| 17 | Tapestries bearing heraldic devices hung on the walls , and medieval artefacts including statuettes , shields and facsimile books of hours , were displayed on strategically positioned tables . |
| 18 | A strong lemon smell , from a local herb known as black branch , hung on the hot steamy air . |
| 19 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 20 | He moved closer to where his daughter was starting again to brush the mud from the coat that hung on the side of the kitchen dresser . |
| 21 | The sharp cold , after his warm exertions , took his breath away for a moment as he hung on the stern of the canoe , but as soon as he had recovered his breath , the Commander struck out for the shore in a strong breaststroke that did not disturb the phosphorescence more than he could help , and barely ruffled the water . |
| 22 | She came downstairs , hung on the wall a portrait of himself that Robin had painted , and his easel below it ; and gave orders that they were not to be removed . |
| 23 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 24 | Tom 's riding hat hung on the brass bedknob at the foot of his bed . |
| 25 | The businessman was staring in angry disbelief at the glittering computer graphic that hung on the screen before him . |
| 26 | An embroidered sampler hung on the wall , A BOY 'S BEST FRIEND IS HIS MOTHER . |
| 27 | Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive . |
| 28 | She could have added : ‘ least of all with you ’ and it seemed to her that the words , unspoken , hung on the air between them . |
| 29 | In the rune-friezed , banner-hung oratorium reserved for cadets the Necromundans hung on the words of crippled veteran lecturers ; and on one such occasion Lexandro learned that Valence had been correct in his seemingly blasphemous comments uttered in the scriptory … |
| 30 | In the cafeteria of l'Ecole Polytechnique , where Christmas decorations hung on the windows , there were slightly fewer people than usual , but the photocopiers along the corridor on the second floor were quite busy , as student stood duplicating notes and articles for their exams . |