Sentence examples for be the hang from inspiring English sources

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In the accompanying catalogue her colleague, the journalist Patrick O'Donovan, discusses their work together and her alchemical talent "...she must use the accidents of time and place as they are to manufacture her gold, whether it be the hang of a curtain, a face in a crowd, the dead give-away in the expression of a self-satisfied man".

Despite all appearances – and confessions of cane-wielding, Wilshaw may not be the hang 'em and flog 'em chief inspector many assume.Wilshaw's way In his first headship (1985 to 2003) he turned St Bonaventure's school, in Newham, east London, from a failing school to an outstanding one.

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So, what was the hang up?

"That's the hang".

So what is the hang up?

For those, like me, who visited America for the first time in the late 1980s it would not be the hang-dog features of Lincoln greeting them at airports and bus terminals, but the Technicolor grin of Ronald Reagan.

Red-tailed hawks are the hang-gliders.

What is the hang-up?

Money is the hang-up.

Actually, investors seem to be getting the hang of it.

He seems to be getting the hang of it.

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