Example sentences of "hang on [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 2 | There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories , and treasures . |
| 3 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 4 | We may be hanging on to relationships which reinforce low levels of self-esteem . |
| 5 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 6 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 7 | They reckon investors should hang on to shares in both National Power and Powergen . |
| 8 | And then they 're hung on by pegs and then touched underneath with mortar to stop them lifting off , that grey sort of er it 's to stop them lifting off . |
| 9 | Shoppers hang on for bargains |
| 10 | German companies typically hang on to employees ' contributions and write pension liabilities on to their balance sheets . |
| 11 | Both bite their attackers and hang on like bulldogs , letting the venom trickle into the wound as they do so . |
| 12 | However , as we saw , this type of personality hangs on to others , looking to them for affirmation and praise . |
| 13 | Edwards hangs on to shares and control of United . |
| 14 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 15 | She just did n't seem to be able to hang on to men , he thought impatiently , not like his Angie , wherever she was . |
| 16 | But the individual members of Lloyd 's , mostly people who were dabbling way over their head in a subject about which they knew little , were often persuaded to hang on for things to improve . |