Example sentences of "hang on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 2 | You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’ |
| 3 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 4 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 5 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 6 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 7 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 8 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 9 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 10 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 11 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 12 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 13 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 14 | If they think peace is impossible , they will hang on to the extra layer of defence these territories provide . |
| 15 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 16 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 17 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 18 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |
| 19 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 20 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 21 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 22 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 23 | Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) . |
| 24 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 25 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 26 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |