Example sentences of "hang [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 2 | He was truly considering hanging the next carcase from a gibbet at the side of the road . |
| 3 | After the dislodgement by French forces of agitators who had hanged the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews from the walls of St Andrews castle and then sustained a protracted siege , Knox served a term in the French galleys until released by the intervention of Edward VI of England , to whom he became a royal chaplain . |
| 4 | You can now hang the new radiator on its brackets , and check that the old valves can be connected to the valve tails . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 9 | Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up . |
| 10 | About these polarities hang the varying states of consciousness that can and do arise ( see Chapter ii ) . |
| 11 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |
| 12 | It covers the upper part of the body and consists of bands of semicircular scales all pointing upwards , ending at the lower edge in a belt from which hangs a broad piece of pleated cloth . |
| 13 | In the second , The Holburne of Menstrie Museum ( in Great Pulteney Street ) , hangs a fine collection of Gainsboroughs in rooms furnished with period pieces , silver and porcelain . |
| 14 | As it is , Sun remains the only major player to snub the box , yet X terminals leader NCD hangs a significant share of its machines on Sun sites or on heterogeneous systems involving Suns , while rivals HP has no problem with selling combinations of workstations and X-terminals for a considerable price-per-seat advantage . |
| 15 | Hang a heavy curtain over the front door to make the hall warmer . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm nervous about hanging a metaphorical sign on my door saying , ‘ Maeve Binchy : Author ’ . |
| 17 | The external doors , of course , admit the greatest number of draughts , so apart from fitting excluders , it is also worth hanging a heavy curtain over the inside of the front and back doors . |
| 18 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 19 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |
| 20 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |
| 21 | It burned all the top of his head and he hung a hot thing over the handle on the door - front door and so he put his hand on the handle and there was piece of skin it was all burned off |
| 22 | The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord . |
| 23 | In the black and charred trees hung a macabre array of jeans . |
| 24 | Mrs Zamzam looked up to the wall of the room where there hung a framed portrait of a young man and woman . |
| 25 | Charlie looked down and checked the length of his trousers : they now hung a good inch above the laces of his boots . |
| 26 | They emerged into the sharp , clean cold of the open air , and overhead hung a crumpled ribbon of stars . |
| 27 | On one wall hung a large picture of a classical , mythological nature : on another wall was an equally large picture of undulating pale yellow and beige lines . |
| 28 | He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning ; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems ; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size . |
| 29 | Her cloak of Lincoln green covered a red kirtle which hung a few inches above tallow-smeared shoes . |
| 30 | At one end stood the Imperial Throne over which hung a purple baldaquin at the top of which was a golden Imperial eagle . |