Example sentences of "hang on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wall of the gallery , the other exhibits hanging on it . |
| 2 | He looked at the springy , sharp-edged lawn , the borders of stocks and pansies backed by honeysuckle and late roses , the baskets of purple trailing lobelias , red geraniums and white alyssum hanging on the walls . |
| 3 | Ross 's experience struck an identical chord with me , for John Sheard and I had exactly the same experience on the first ascent of Face Route where the second , hanging on a sling to remove gear , was observed by a member of the establishment and a rumour immediately started that was rapidly translated into guidebook writer 's ‘ fact ’ . |
| 4 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 5 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 6 | The on-stage arguments and bust-ups practically became a feature of the show , with Daltrey almost permanently poised to quit , but somehow hanging on . |
| 7 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 8 | National Savings income bonds might just be worth hanging on to at 11.75 per cent if you are a non-taxpayer . |
| 9 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 10 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , Pat , not the big fat rabbit that was in the hutch hanging on the wall at the back of the house ? ’ |
| 11 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 12 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 13 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 14 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 15 | Hanging on the wall ( behind the lemons ) is a lethal-looking old American corn-drying rack Top The farmhouse seen from across the fields Above Graeme and Sam Fifield-Hall |
| 16 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 17 | I made Jack shave his head — because he had the remnants of his hair hanging on — wonderful shape of ahead — shaved that off . |
| 18 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 19 | They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers . |
| 20 | Hanging on hardest will be the two London franchise-holders , Thames Television and its weekend equivalent , LWT . |
| 21 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 24 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 25 | Downstairs in the basement , all they had to look at was the brick wall of the coal-hole with Mrs Parvis 's aluminium meat-safe hanging on it , and a line of smelly bins . |
| 26 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 27 | Then she saw him , hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates . |
| 28 | If I can lever myself by hanging on to this … . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She sighed with relief and steered him towards a gate half hanging on its rusted hinges . |