Example sentences of "hang on to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’
2 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties .
6 At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 If they think peace is impossible , they will hang on to the extra layer of defence these territories provide .
10 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 .
11 Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag .
12 Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) .
16 Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach .
17 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 .
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