Example sentences of "[noun] hanging over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983 . |
| 2 | The younger was nineteen or so , just a few inches taller than Melanie , with longish , bright red hair hanging over the collar of a dark blue , rather military looking jacket with shoulder flaps and brass buttons . |
| 3 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 4 | There were oil lamps hanging over the verandah , and they threw black shadows towards the mosque entrance , and towards the shop where clothes were sold , long since shut . |
| 5 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 6 | Two years ago , there were huge doubts hanging over the future of Cowley . |
| 7 | Family Finance : Investments with a no-lose guarantee With election uncertainty hanging over the stock market , Tom Tickell looks at equity bonds that offer at least your money back |
| 8 | And the Monster was sat in the bucket , filling the bucket with its bloated pink body , its great bulging legs hanging over the edge . |
| 9 | When I recovered myself and controlled my weeping , my attention was attracted by Granny 's photograph hanging over the mantelshelf . |
| 10 | ‘ The only spectre hanging over the property market is unemployment at the moment . |
| 11 | But occasionally she stared back at him and then up again , as she had sometimes before , except that this time , with the sense of crisis and danger hanging over the Cages , it seemed there was something urgent about her stance and her stares . |
| 12 | The next morning saw a sky heavy with rain hanging over the hills . |
| 13 | Next morning , painful rays of sunlight somehow filtered through the haze hanging over the city . |
| 14 | As she opened her mouth to shriek , he grabbed a green towel hanging over the shower rail and slapped it over her mouth . |
| 15 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 16 | An occasional distraction , an even more seductive glow , is the full moon hanging over the sea , right in the middle of my window . |
| 17 | With so many awkward questions hanging over the case , Coleman found it hard to imagine that the government would take it into court — and was not at all reassured by the thought . |
| 18 | And they was hanging out the bottom , hanging out with their guns hanging over the edges . |
| 19 | He saw the ball hanging over the flag and let the club slide down through his hands , a sure sign that a pro likes his shot . |
| 20 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 21 | A.D. 850 — a calm morning with mist hanging over the river and through the forest . |
| 22 | The air was cool , the grass was damp with dew , and there was a faint mist hanging over the nearby fields . |
| 23 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a lot of bad paintings hanging over the market in Japan because of this chandelier bidding . |
| 25 | and there was him with his finger hanging over the side . |
| 26 | Dawn , despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains , found us hitching towards Cairngorm . |
| 27 | As I went out , past the shrouded furniture in the front room ( things made ready these twenty years past for the move that never came ) I noticed a Lowry reproduction hanging over the mantelpiece that had n't been there on my last visit . |
| 28 | Juanita Garcias , who was twenty five and from France , was a passenger in the lorry which came to a stop hanging over the edge of the bridge on the M-forty near Aynho . |
| 29 | There was an old broken mud house nearby with a fallen tower where the pigeons had lived , and trees like willows hanging over the still water . |
| 30 | There 's a cloth hanging over the fireplace . ’ |