Example sentences of "hang the [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 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The images , the icons , are simply so many symbols ; so may pegs to hang the spiritual ideas upon . |
| 15 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 16 | It was obviously dishonest and disingenuous to try to cash in on a film dealing realistically with labour problems and then to hang the whole action on the villainy of professional racketeers specializing in encouraging strikes before helping to break them . |
| 17 | Where to hang the steaming kit for a shadow pleated skirt is always quite a problem . |