Example sentences of "hang [adv] the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 2 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 3 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 4 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 5 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |
| 6 | Three photos of her dead son hang on the walls of their council terraced house . |
| 7 | Pictures and documents about Robert Tassell , the original owner of Blacklands , who was twice Mayor of Maidstone , hang on the walls of the comfortable TV lounge . |
| 8 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 9 | They hang around the edges of the dance floor , drinking , jostled by gangs of teenagers milling around . |
| 10 | ‘ The ones that hang around the racetracks of the world are ! ’ he responded . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 14 | Many who had no belief , I among that number , packed into the house of God to hang on the words of his servant . |