Example sentences of "hang on to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had said that before she had meant it , but now she realised she was lying ; she was wanting to make him feel better and she was also hanging on to her old life to feel safe . |
| 2 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 3 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 4 | The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences . |
| 5 | The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty , was today anxiously waiting to see if he could hang on to his threatened seat in the Court electoral area . |
| 6 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
| 7 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 8 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 9 | I do not believe in a nuclear civil war in the Soviet Union — I think that Nazarbaev and Krawczuk want to hang on to their nuclear weapons as a defence against a Russian attack . |
| 10 | At one extreme is the Ministry of Defence , determined to hang on to its exclusive tenure of Range West and , with the exception of half a dozen conducted walks it 's prepared to allow from Stack Rocks to Freshwater West every summer , to keep out the public . |
| 11 | Even DEC may find that it may need to hang on to its V.3.2-level Ultrix rather longer than it intended : it says that so far about 500 of the 3,000 Ultrix applications are being converted for OSF/1 , which does n't sound like unbounded enthusiasm on the part of the industry . |