Example sentences of "[conj] hung on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 2 | The room was bare , except for the staircase , and a pair of indifferent watercolours of dead flowers that hung on the wall opposite the door . |
| 3 | He moved closer to where his daughter was starting again to brush the mud from the coat that hung on the side of the kitchen dresser . |
| 4 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 5 | The businessman was staring in angry disbelief at the glittering computer graphic that hung on the screen before him . |
| 6 | Rather : thin muslin sheets of brown and red were being pulled past his eyes , patterned like the blankets woven by the women , patterned like the rug that hung on the wall in his daughter 's room . |
| 7 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 8 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 9 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He slowed in flight , rolled expertly , backed away and then stalled and hung on the thin wind all at once . |
| 11 | The ball jumped up and out and hung on the wind |