Example sentences of "hang on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 2 | Berger pulled himself up , hanging on to the marble top and the gypsies started to laugh . |
| 3 | They got down awkwardly , hanging on to the edge of the sill and dropping on to the road . |
| 4 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 6 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 7 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 8 | Victoria was standing at the top of the stairs hanging on to the banister . |
| 9 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 10 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 11 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 12 | Hanging on to the cliff face by his nails , gaining small purchase on it . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Callaghan stood , hanging on to the rags of his self-respect . |
| 18 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 19 | ‘ Before what reaches us ? ’ she croaked , hanging on to the wheel as if it were a lifebelt . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 22 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 23 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 27 | I really expect to get back in three or four days and I will try and hang on to the holiday . |
| 28 | You ca n't hang on to the past . ’ |
| 29 | Asked if he would hang on to the tot , he replied : ‘ No way — no , no . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |