Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 32 | Hanging on to the cliff face by his nails , gaining small purchase on it . |
| 33 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 34 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 35 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 36 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 37 | ‘ Before what reaches us ? ’ she croaked , hanging on to the wheel as if it were a lifebelt . |
| 38 | She pulled herself up to the level of the bonnet by hanging on to the wing mirror then snatched at a scrap of folded paper . |
| 39 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 40 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 41 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 42 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 43 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 44 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 45 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 46 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 47 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 48 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 49 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 50 | Cley rose to his feet and stood gazing down at the councillor . |
| 51 | The man was standing beside the stream , arms folded , gazing down at the water . |
| 52 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 53 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 54 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 55 | She sat , leaning her cheek on her hand , gazing down at the dog , her flaming hair falling untidily down her back , and over her shoulders , and glistening in the light from the candelabrum on the mantel and the glow of the fire . |
| 56 | She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth . |
| 57 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 58 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 59 | At the end of the gallery the girl halted , gazing down into the hall through one of the archways cut into the wall . |
| 60 | In another mood , while gazing down into the vapour one could imagine the turbulent creation of the Earth with the alpha tracks like mountain ranges constantly forming , disappearing and reforming . |