Example sentences of "hang [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 2 | The banners of yellow Paper hanging between the bright silk banners and red lacquered columns in the temple by the village green were covered in lists of Chinese characters . |
| 3 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 4 | Rajk was secretary-general of the party but his internationalism branded him as dangerously Titoist and he was hanged as a fascist spy and traitor . |
| 5 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 6 | A well cut , classic blazer is an investment in style that should hang in every well-dressed man 's wardrobe . |
| 7 | On March 2 , 1989 two women were hanged in a public square in Baghdad . |
| 8 | Two brothers aged 20 and 24 were hanged in the main square of the industrial town of Fier , southern Albania , on June 25 . |
| 9 | When Black Jock protested loyalty to the Crown and his native land , and offered to carry out any raid James might choose in England , he and his followers were summarily hanged from the nearest trees . |
| 10 | The only logical conclusion is that Brampton and Vechey were hanged by the same person . ’ |
| 11 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 12 | For a more versatile choice , there are now several makes of jacket using a waterproof membrane ( usually Goretex or Sympatex ) which is hung between the outer fabric and the lining . |
| 13 | Scalloped headings are normally used on short café curtains and are hung below a narrow rod from rings . |
| 14 | His hair was untidy ; his long thin hands hung below the leather-bound sleeves of the green corduroy jacket , dangling awkwardly as if he did n't know what to do with them . |
| 15 | The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch , the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away . |
| 16 | And vampires hung behind the stirring curtains |
| 17 | The sky overhead was empty of stars and hung like a purple-blue cloth around the ship as it drifted towards the horizon where a fiery red glow lit the gateway to Hell . |
| 18 | Her gown was low cut , exposing creamy shoulders and the shadow between her breasts , and there was a slim chain about her white neck from which a single gem hung like a firelit star . |
| 19 | The clouds hung like a grey-black roof over the valley . |
| 20 | Twenty years ago , it had been a cosy Victorian hostelry , seldom visited except by its regulars , with an open fire in winter and horse brasses polished to whiteness hung against the black beams . |
| 21 | Above the hearth ran a broad oaken shelf containing silver and pewter cups which shimmered by the light of two multi-branched candelabra ; woollen rugs of dark murrey hung against the white-washed walls . |
| 22 | Some stairs , and then around a corner where a staff pay phone hung under a grey plastic hood on the wall , and she was looking down what she guessed had to be the dressing-room corridor . |
| 23 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 24 | The air hung with an antiseptic aroma peculiar to hospitals , and as she passed elderly sick people Lucy suddenly felt very young and healthy . |
| 25 | Far to the Major 's north , in Brussels , a detachment of Highland soldiers had been ordered to the Duke of Richmond 's house , where they were shown into the dazzling ballroom hung with the Belgian colours . |
| 26 | The furniture was almost all antique of the period , though on one wall , at a corridor 's end , a Louis-Quinze tapestry hung above an eighteenth-century pew . |
| 27 | The wintry sun , pale yellow and barely warm , hung above the new towers at Westminster , still with their fuzzy outline of scaffolding and looking more like giant columnar trees than a work of man . |
| 28 | A full moon hung above the distant mountains . |
| 29 | A hint of reproach hung round the final words . |
| 30 | His clothes , such as they were , hung in a small wardrobe which , despite its narrowness , was half empty . |