Example sentences of "hang on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 2 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 3 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 4 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 5 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 6 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 7 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 8 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 9 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 10 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 11 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 12 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 13 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 14 | When Catherine died , she was all I had left , but you ca n't hang on to young people … they 're not an insurance against loneliness in old age . |
| 15 | Oh could you hang on to that lot a minute . |
| 16 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 17 | The wilfulness of human nature can be deceitful , and we can hang on to old ways like cherished thoughts or possessions . |
| 18 | The Commissariat for War still hung on to 752 coaches ; the Commissariat for Health had no fewer than 2,718 , and was even demanding a further 1,200 . |
| 19 | Ireland 's Darren Clarke , Sweden 's Robert Karlsson and the veteran Argentine Vicente Fernandez all shot 67 , while Gilford birdied the last two holes to return 70 and hang on to second place — only two strokes behind his England Dunhill colleague . |
| 20 | ‘ In that case , you hang on to that copy , Chen . |
| 21 | So hang on to those shares . |
| 22 | The secret of success is to use your Adult ( see Ego-states on page 56 and hang on to assertive behaviour ( see Assertiveness on page 8 and Conflict on page 35 ) . |
| 23 | Only three seasons ago , under Dave Stringer , Norwich led Division One until New Year 's Eve , hung on to second place for nearly three more months but collapsed to finish fourth , 14 points behind Arsenal and Liverpool . |
| 24 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 25 | Hendry is on the crest of a wave , very conscious of the fact that he 's the champion of the world , and wants to hang on to that rating of the number one player in the world . |
| 26 | When the trade unions established the Labour Party as a parliamentary voice for organised labour , they likewise established the ‘ duty to win ’ — to achieve power in Parliament and then to hang on to that power come what may , or put more bluntly , regardless of socialist principle . |
| 27 | He was set up as the triggerman for the massacre by those forces inside President F.W. de Klerk 's administration determined to hang on to white power at all costs . |
| 28 | He ca n't make the point that trying to hang on to those feelings leads to unbearable frustration . |
| 29 | But as the deadline approaches look out for new products , such as cash unit trusts paying interest gross , as the banks and building societies battle to hang on to those deposits . |
| 30 | However , the family were unable to hang on to both properties , for Richard Gittins V stood surety for a friend , lost a lot of money and had to relinquish the lease to Eagle Farm . |