Example sentences of "[noun] hung over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 2 | There was a single filing cabinet , but in all other respects the room could have been inhabited by his father , the colonial Bishop whose portrait hung over the marble mantelshelf . |
| 3 | An air of crisis hung over the closing stages of the 1993-94 budget process : the rejection of Bill Clinton 's stimulus package and a last-minute shortfall in grants from the state government in Albany left a $100m hole that suddenly forced fresh cuts on City Hall ( which , unlike the federal spendthrifts , must by law balance its budget ) . |
| 4 | Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town , stifling as a warm pillow , making it difficult to breathe . |
| 5 | An air of unreality hung over the whole campaign . |
| 6 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 7 | He gestured to where the flag of the other Germany hung over the old Tiergarten . |
| 8 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 9 | A light cotton jacket hung over the back of her chair . |
| 10 | A dark palpable mist hung over the moorland and behind it the sun flamed in temper . |
| 11 | A thin , silky mist hung over the city , reminding Merrill of the water-colour townscapes which , in her gentler moods , Elise had painted so well . |
| 12 | A pall of black smoke hung over the quarry . |
| 13 | A low pall of smoke hung over the nearby buildings ; there had been a dawn funeral , a burning . |
| 14 | As day dawned a thick pall of acrid smoke hung over the riot-torn prison which was surrounded by an army of police , fire and ambulance officers . |
| 15 | A huge pall of dust and smoke hung over the district , residents said . |
| 16 | They had a crudely-carved , regular look about them , so that on this crisp autumn morning the Wyrmberg hung over the clouds like a giant 's dovecote . |
| 17 | The day was unusually hot for late April and a still , almost oppressive air hung over the forest . |
| 18 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 19 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
| 20 | A thick scatter of cloud hung over the moor . |
| 21 | A dark curtain of cloud hung over the horizon to the north as Dexter weaved his way through the clotted traffic on the Kentish Town Road . |
| 22 | Organisers hoped to break last year 's £22,000 record but a cloud hung over the event . |
| 23 | Although a spacious courtyard made the small rooms light , and I was well served by a bed , table and chair of Van Gogh simplicity , I could not deny that an air of melancholy hung over the place . |
| 24 | Built circa 1880 , bits drop off the outside and have to be caught in a wire net hung over the door . |
| 25 | After a while I could see dimly by the light filtering through the sacking hung over the two narrow slits which are the Bunker 's only windows . |
| 26 | A straw St Bridget 's Cross hung over the door of the dark little room in which I was eating my breakfast next morning . |
| 27 | An awkward , almost embarrassed atmosphere hung over the normally happy room . |
| 28 | A gloomy atmosphere hung over the Dowty aerospace factory this afternoon — with workers who 've already survived two waves of redundancies by the firm now being told they face a third . |