Example sentences of "[adv] clinging to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
2 | The Chancellor — clearly just clinging to his job — told Ministers at a Cabinet meeting yesterday that they must slash millions off their budgets . |
3 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |
4 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard |
5 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard . |
6 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
7 | Mike Laister was still clinging to his point of view . |
8 | ‘ May the Lord bless you and keep you … ’ and he reeled off the whole benediction , still clinging to my hand . |
9 | ‘ Just take me back to the villa , please ? ’ she managed to request , precariously clinging to her dignity . |
10 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |