Example sentences of "[noun sg] hang over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | When I recovered myself and controlled my weeping , my attention was attracted by Granny 's photograph hanging over the mantelshelf . |
| 5 | ‘ The only spectre hanging over the property market is unemployment at the moment . |
| 6 | His portrait hung over the fireplace in every tenement room and whitewashed cabin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Next morning , painful rays of sunlight somehow filtered through the haze hanging over the city . |
| 9 | As she opened her mouth to shriek , he grabbed a green towel hanging over the shower rail and slapped it over her mouth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A towel hung over the door . |
| 12 | Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town , stifling as a warm pillow , making it difficult to breathe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An occasional distraction , an even more seductive glow , is the full moon hanging over the sea , right in the middle of my window . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A.D. 850 — a calm morning with mist hanging over the river and through the forest . |
| 17 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 18 | Mist hung over the water and the huge concourse of duck swam and ducked and preened . |
| 19 | A mist hung over the river , and the buildings on the far bank could hardly be seen . |
| 20 | A large question mark hangs over the government 's intention to ever use contract compliance . |
| 21 | Although many of the main ingredients for a successful first challenge from Spain are clearly in place , a question mark hangs over the afterguard of the boat . |
| 22 | But a question mark hangs over the technology of ‘ holophonics ’ , which the inventor explains by expounding a new theory of human hearing . |
| 23 | A big question mark hangs over the wisdom of visiting any Arab state at present , writes Mike Harper . |
| 24 | A light cotton jacket hung over the back of her chair . |
| 25 | A dark palpable mist hung over the moorland and behind it the sun flamed in temper . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | and there was him with his finger hanging over the side . |
| 28 | A cloud of cigarette smoke hangs over the group , slowly wafting over the television set and out through the open window . |
| 29 | That does n't cut any ice at the No 10 saloon where Wild Bill Hickok 's death chair hangs over the door . |
| 30 | A pall of black smoke hung over the quarry . |