Example sentences of "hang on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 2 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 3 | He would hang on for that . |
| 4 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 5 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 6 | Being a true professional , she flashed a smile — as Fred hung on for dear life — and admitted it was a pretty paw show . |
| 7 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 8 | He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . |
| 9 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 10 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 11 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |