Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] clinging to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 2 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 3 | ‘ Ross … ! ’ she cried , throwing herself into his arms and tearfully clinging to his broad shoulders . |
| 4 | They appeared everywhere , not only in collections shown for next season but already clinging to many substantial German posteriors in runway show audiences . |
| 5 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |